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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2010

Can agitated behavior of nursing home residents with dementia be prevented with the use of standardized stimuli?

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Marcia S Marx, Maha Dakheel-Ali, Natalie G Regier, Khin Thein, Laurence Freedman

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05159869 (Meaningful Activity Intervention for Individuals With Early-Stage Dementia), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT05159869 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Meaningful Activity Intervention for Individuals With Early-Stage Dementia: Involving the End User in Intervention Design

TypeinterventionalSponsorJohns Hopkins UniversityRan2022 to 2024Enrolled61ConditionsDementiaArmsUser-Led Meaningful Activity Plan
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  2. Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  3. Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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  4. A systematic review of strategies to foster activity engagement in persons with dementia.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jiska Cohen-MansfieldResearch Institute on Aging, Charles E. Smith Life Communities, Rockville, Maryland, USA. jiska@post.tau.ac.il
Marcia S Marx
Maha Dakheel-Ali
Natalie G Regier
Khin Thein
Laurence Freedman

Funding

ENGAGEMENT OF PERSONS WITH DEMENTIAR01AG021497 · NIA · HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON · PI COHEN-MANSFIELD, JISKA · 2004 to 2006
$920k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG021497
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo assess the relative effect of different types of stimuli on agitated behaviors of nursing home residents with dementia.

designRepeated-measures design with randomized assignment of conditions.

settingSeven Maryland nursing homes.

participantsOne hundred eleven nursing home residents with a diagnosis of dementia who exhibited agitation.

interventionDifferent types of stimuli (music, social stimuli, simulated social stimuli, and individualized stimuli based on the person's self-identity) were presented. MEASUREMENTS: Agitation was directly observed and recorded using the Agitation Behavior Mapping Instrument.

resultsAll stimulus categories were associated with significantly less physical agitation than baseline observations, and all except for manipulative stimuli were associated with significantly less total agitation. Live social stimuli were associated with less agitation than music, self-identity, work, simulated social, and manipulative stimulus categories. Task and reading stimulus categories were each associated with significantly less agitation than work, simulated social, and manipulative stimulus categories. Music and self-identity stimuli were associated with less agitation than simulated social and manipulative stimuli.

conclusionProviding stimuli offers a proactive approach to preventing agitation in persons with dementia, with live social stimuli being the most successful.

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AttentionAged, 80 and overAnimalsDementiaFemaleGeriatric AssessmentHumansInterpersonal RelationsMaleMusicNursing HomesObject AttachmentPsychomotor AgitationSelf Concept

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PMID20579167
PMCPMC2955178

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