Development of the evaluation standard of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24500590
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Nagasaki University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Koji 長崎大学, 医歯薬学総合研究科(保健学科), 助教 (60613601)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TANAKA Goro 長崎大学, 医歯薬学総合研究科(保健学科), 教授 (00253691) ; NAKANE Hideyuki 長崎大学, 医歯薬学総合研究科(保健学科), 教授 (90274795)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 認知症 / BPSD / 評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The BPSD increases a care burden, and reduces the QOL of a person with dementia and the caregiver. The existing BPSD evaluation standard tended with more end-point of the psychology symptom than an behavioral symptom, and It is hard to use the evaluation standard of existing BPSD in the real care scene. We investigated BPSD seen in elderly person facilities for employees.The BPSD item of the behavioral symptom became higher in frequency and severity than a psychology symptom. Based on this result, we developed an evaluation standard of BPSD based on the person-centered care approach.We think this evaluation standard can contribute to the construction of the rehabilitation model and the care model.

Free Research Field

リハビリテーション科学・福祉工学