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A Study on Environment-related Factors that Affect Wandering for People with Dementia - A Systematic Review of Literature: Focused on the Context of Long-term Care Facilities for People with Dementia

  • JOURNAL OF THE KOREA INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE
  • Abbr : KIHA
  • 2015, 21(3), pp.9-23
  • DOI : 10.15682/jkiha.2015.21.3.9
  • Publisher : Korea Institute Of Healthcare Architecture
  • Research Area : Engineering > Architectural Engineering
  • Published : September 15, 2015

Young-Seon Choi 1 YEO JIN CHOI 2

1경일대학교
2대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

Purpose: This paper‘s main objective is to provide a systematic review of research evidence that articulates the impact of environment-related factors on wandering for people with dementia in the Long-term Care Facilities. Another objective of this study is to identify design implications that can be incorporated into design process and decisions to positively improve wandering abilities for people with dementia. Methods: Comprehensive literature review has been performed to investigate empirical studies and peer-reviewed articles published in many different fields including psychology, architecture, nursing to gerontology. Results: The review found studies that identified environment-related factors, affecting wandering for people with Dementia living in Long-term Care Facilities. Implications: The findings can help us understand wandering behavior and the recommendations in this research can serve as parts of considerations in practice that can help efficiently manage wandering abilities of people with dementia living in Long-term Care Facilities. Further studies with larger samples and various environmental conditions are required to confirm the findings in this study.

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