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The Importance of a Consumer Perspective in Home Adaptation of Alzheimer's Households

Staying put - adapting the places instead of the people

Author: Silverstein, N. M., Hyde, J.
Year: 1997
Type: Book Section

Abstract:

This study compares the home adaptation needs of the cognitively impaired to those of the frail elderly. Silverstein and Hyde explore the unique adaptation needs of people with Alzheimer's disease and report new research which seeks to understand how dementia caregivers view adaptation.

Further Details

Author Lanspery, S., Hyde, J.
Pages 91-111
Publish Location Amityville, NY
Publisher Baywood Publishing
ISBN/ISSN 0-89503-133-7
Accession Number September, 2011
Notes Retain Print
Access Date 26.4.06
Keywords cognition, design

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