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Spontaneity in dementia: an analysis of 696 institutionalized elderly patients
1Institution for Handicapped Children Taiyo-no-Sono, Saitama, Japan.
The Keio Journal of Medicine
|July 11, 1998
Abstract:
Activities of daily living (ADL), mental function, spontaneity, emotion and problematic behaviors were compared in elderly patients with hip fracture, hemiplegia, hemiparesis, senile dementia of Alzheimer type and multi-infarct dementia. Osteoarthropathy patients with normal intelligence served as a control group. ADL was most strongly affected by spontaneity, then, by intelligence. The contributions of emotion and problematic behaviors were not very marked.