Prioritizing problem features in Korean patients with senile dementia for implementation of monitoring technologies.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the central problem features of Korean patients with senile dementia and to prioritize the features according to risk to the patient with a view to the implementation of remote monitoring technologies. Twenty central problem features were extracted using factorial analysis. The frequency of violent language and confabulation, gathering, and repetition was significantly greater in female than in male patients with senile dementia. All central features, with the exception of abnormal sexual behavior and audiovisual deficits, differed in frequency between the normal elderly and the senile dementia patients and between patients with dementias of different severity. Judgment disorder was the greatest differentiating factor between the normal elderly and the patients with senile dementia. For dementia severity, memory disorder was the greatest differentiating factor of severe versus mild dementia. When risk to the patient was analyzed, problems of perception were identified as the problem features of highest priority.
Tack
Gye-Rae
GR
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical & Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju, South Korea.
Choi
Mi-Hyun
MH
Lee
Su-Jeong
SJ
Yang
Jae-Woong
JW
Kim
Ji-Hye
JH
Choi
Jin-Seung
JS
Jun
Jae-Hoon
JH
Lee
Jeong-Whan
JW
Park
Jang-Yeon
JY
Moon
Seok-Woo
SW
Chung
Soon-Cheol
SC
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D010465:Perception; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors