title: Heeding the behavioral message of elders with dementia in day care.
abstract: Embodied language is unity of bodily, linguistic, and behavioral descriptors, expressed as health. Disagreement behavior, client unwillingness to respond as requested when uncomfortable in a situation, occurs in elders with dementia. Case study analysis suggests that agitation/aggression may be avoided if disagreement behavior is recognized as a message of discomfort.
authors.affiliation: Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan. mioitoh@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Mio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Ryutaro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liehr
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations