Assessments of Institutionalized Dementia Patients' Competencies to Participate in Intimate Relationships
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 30 (1) , 117-120
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/30.1.117
Abstract
Although sexual interests in institutionalized elderly patients have long been recognized (Comfort, 1974; Wasow & Loeb, 1974), guidelines to help determine patients' competencies to participate in intimate relationships are not delineated in the literature. This paper describes the assessment technique used by an interdisciplinary staff on a coed Alzheimer's disease unit. Two case studies are presented to highlight how the assessment led to the treatment decisions.Keywords
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