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American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®
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Special Care Units as places for social interaction: Evaluating an SCU's social affordance

Keith Diaz Moore, PhD

Interdisciplinary Design Institute, Washington State University at Spokane, Spokane, Washington

Rianne Verhoef, M. Ger.

Eindhoven Institute of Technology, The Nether-lands

This study is a multi-method, intrinsic case study evaluation of social interaction understood as a global dimension of Quality of Life (QOL) in a special care unit (SCU) for cognitively impaired older persons. The study proposes an initial means for describing and evaluating the social affordance of a place. Through the accumulation of similar case studies, care practice can make better informed decisions because of an awareness of successful or unsuccessful patterns that begin to emerge in the descriptive data. Reflecting the improvement-orientation of the evaluation, the SCU in question is found to have several factors-organizational and physical in nature which unwittingly thwart the therapeutic benefit of social interaction. The case study adopts an environment behavior perspective following the theoretical development. The focus of the evaluation is the consensual and social-normative aspects of social interaction.

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 14, No. 4, 217-229 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/153331759901400406
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