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© 1998 Oxford University Press

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Quality of life in nursing-home residents: an intervention study of the effect of mental stimulation through an audiovisual programme

LISA RöNNBERG

Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden. Fax: (+46) 8 727 68 74. e-mail: Lisa.Ronnberg{at}cnsf.ki.se

OBJECTIVE:: to create a model for improving the quality of life of nursing-home residents.

DESIGN:: a controlled randomized study.

SETTING:: a suburban nursing home in Stockholm.

INTERVENTION:: mental stimulation by audiovisual means.

SUBJECTS:: residents with mild mental impairment who had lived in the nursing home for at least 6 months.

OUTCOME MEASURES:: quality of life was measured by the Nottingham Health Profile.

RESULTS:: the quality of life increased in the intervention groups compared with die control group.

CONCLUSION:: audiovisual stimulation had a great impact on the quality of life of chronically ill elderly nursing-home residents.

Keywords: aged, audiovisual, mental stimulation, nursing home, quality of life

Received July 18, 1997;
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