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Staff helping behaviors: Alzheimer day care

Department of Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Helping behaviors of staff members at an Alzheimer day care center were examined through participant observation and ethnographic interviewing. Analysis of the field notes and interview data revealed a primary theme of prevention of harm in the helping patterns and secondary themes of enhancing client function and providing social connectedness. Comparisons with relational and dependency models of helping are made and implications for dementia care are discussed.

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 7, No. 5, 9-16 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/153331759200700504


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