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Positive Environment?: Physical and Social Influences on People with Senile Dementia in Residential Care »
Authors: Ann Netten
ISBN-13: 9781857421125, ISBN-10: 1857421124
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: March 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ann Netten
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Issues in the residential care of people with senile dementia | 1 |
| Characteristics of dementia | 2 | |
| The need for residential care | 6 | |
| Residential care policy | 8 | |
| 2 | The research questions and study design | 16 |
| A 'testable' model | 16 | |
| Dimensions of outcome and effect | 20 | |
| Personal characteristics | 23 | |
| Supra-personal environment | 24 | |
| The social environment | 25 | |
| The physical environment | 26 | |
| 3 | The social environment: caring regimes | 29 |
| Methodology | 30 | |
| Relationships | 31 | |
| Personal growth | 34 | |
| System maintenance and change | 38 | |
| 4 | The social environment: social climate and regime classification | 42 |
| Methodology | 42 | |
| Comparison with USA establishments | 44 | |
| Social climate among confused residents | 46 | |
| Social climate in group homes | 47 | |
| Classification of homes by regime type | 49 | |
| Methodology and resulting classification | 49 | |
| Description of regime groupings | 53 | |
| Determinants of type of regime | 54 | |
| 5 | The physical environment | 57 |
| Types of design | 57 | |
| Ambience | 58 | |
| Territory, privacy and personal space | 61 | |
| Complexity | 65 | |
| 6 | The effect of the environment of residential homes on demented residents | 79 |
| Methodology | 79 | |
| Personal characteristics | 83 | |
| Psychotropic drugs | 85 | |
| Supra-personal environmental influences | 85 | |
| Social environmental influences | 87 | |
| Physical environmental influences | 88 | |
| Overall effect of the environment | 89 | |
| 7 | Policy implications and future research | 94 |
| Research implications | 95 | |
| Physical design of homes | 97 | |
| Specialist provision | 98 | |
| Staffing | 100 | |
| Role of facilities in the community | 101 | |
| Inspection, performance review and the monitoring role of local authorities | 102 | |
| Innovations in residential care of people with dementia | 104 | |
| Informal care homes | 105 | |
| References | 109 | |
| Subject index | 121 | |
| Author index | 125 |
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