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DEMENTIA AND GERIATRIC COGNITIVE DISORDERS
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 370-377Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000163219
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Behavioral/psychiatric symptoms of dementia; Sexual behaviors; Disinhibited behavior; Intimacy-seeking behavior; Long-term care; Residential care; Clinical epidemiology; Neuropsychiatry
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- NIA NIH HHS [K08 AG029157] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [K08AG029157] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Objectives: There exists little information describing the spectrum and correlations of sexual behaviors manifested by elders with dementia living in residential care. Methods: Data are from a retrospective case-control study of improper sexual behaviors manifested by 165 elders with dementia living in a residential care facility in 2005. Results: Three types of behavior were evident: (1) intimacy-seeking, (2) disinhibited, and (3) nonsexual. Intimacy-seeking behaviors were associated with Alzheimer disease, and disinhibited behaviors with non-Alzheimer dementias. Behavior type was associated with dementia severity. Conclusions: Delineation of the types of improper sexual behaviors occurring in dementia has practical implications for practice and research. Progress will require prospective studies with systematic ascertainment of cases and variables, and recruitment from large sampling frames. Copyright (C) 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel
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