Noise-Making Amongst the Elderly in Long Term Care
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 28 (3) , 369-371
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/28.3.369
Abstract
Nurses in two long-term care facilities indicated that about 30% of residents presented noise-making behavior. From their descriptions, a typology of noise-making was identified: purposeless and perseverative noise-making, noise-making in response to the environment, noise-making to elicit a response from the environment, “chatterbox” noise-making, noise-making in the context of deafness, and other noise-making. The clinical value of this typology is discussed.Keywords
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