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Wandering and twilight in a female psychogeriatric population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kathleen Duggan  and
Carrick McDonald
Kathleen Duggan
Affiliation:
Purley Day Hospital, 50 Pampisford Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 2NE
Carrick McDonald
Affiliation:
Purley Day Hospital, 50 Pampisford Road, Purley, Surrey CR2 2NE
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With the move towards community care, the problem of wandering behaviour in psychogeriatric patients may pose a barrier to their placement in residential homes. The prevailing wisdom that this behaviour increased around twilight was looked at by Evans (1983) whose study showed increased restlessness in the late afternoon in a nursing home population. Cohen-Mansfield et al (1989), however, did not find any clear pattern of behaviour related to sundown. This study examines only wandering behaviour and controls for seasonal change in twilight times.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 8 , August 1992 , pp. 478
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Watson, V., Meade, W., et al (1989) Does sundowning occur in residents of an Alzheimer's Unit? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 4, 293–298.Google Scholar
Evans, L. K. (1985) Sundown syndrome in the elderly. A phenomenon in search of exploration. Centre for the study of Ageing Newsletter, 7, 7.Google Scholar
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