Measuring the Person-Centeredness of Caregivers Working With Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
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Measuring the person-centeredness of caregivers working with nursing home residents with dementia.
There is increasing interest in promoting person-centered caregiving within gerontology. However, few observational instruments have been developed to measure person-centered caregiving behaviors. In the present study, two innovative coding instruments-the Person-Centered Behavior Inventory (PCBI) and the Global Behavior Scale (GBS)-were used to test the hypothesis that caregivers' person-cente...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Therapy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0005-7894
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.02.005