Characteristics of Activities for Persons With Dementia at the Mild, Moderate, and Severe Stages (original) (raw)

“…Family carers focused on the need for activities to be engaging for people with moderate dementia and pleasurable for those with severe dementia. These reports are reflected in activity plans written by occupational therapists for people living with dementia in the community (Regier, Hodgson, & Gitlin, ). Goal‐related activities were typically planned for those with mild dementia, occasionally for those with moderate dementia and rarely for people with severe dementia.…”

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Guidance for using pleasant activity as a therapeutic intervention in dementiaFigure inspired by Regier et al(421)

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“…Previous studies have reported that physical activity may be provided more easily if the dementia is severe. [ 24 ] Physical NPI has also been reported to improve cognitive function in mild to severe patients with CI. [ 43 ] Physical NPI may be easy to provide for NH residents with CI who have particularly low orientation, comprehension, and naming.…”

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“…In previous studies on people with CI, analyses using tests and maximum likelihood estimations have primarily been used as conventional statistical methods. [ 24 , 25 ] However, the interpretation of the results of conventional statistical methods is not intuitive, and overfitting is frequently carried out in analyses that combine several types of probability distributions to reflect background information and hypotheses. Therefore, in recent years, Bayesian analyses have garnered attention as a statistical method that is intuitive and easy to interpret, while enabling stable estimation even for complex models.…”

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