Minner De, Hoffstetter Patty, Casey Linda, Jones Delores
Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
J Nurs Care Qual. 2004 Oct-Dec;19(4):343-8. doi: 10.1097/00001786-200410000-00010.
Care of the resident with dementia can be both challenging and unpredictable. Activities provided for nursing home residents often have rules and may be a source of frustration for residents with advancing dementia. Snoezelen, or multisensory therapy, offers a failure-free activity in an enabling environment that can both stimulate and relax the resident with dementia. Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Versailles, Mo, undertook a 1-year outcome-based quality improvement project to find if use of Snoezelen therapy could reduce the number of behavioral symptoms that residents were suffering from. While there are still barriers to the use Snoezelen therapy, employees at Good Shepherd Nursing Home believe that the use of Snoezelen therapy has been a successful and rewarding experience for both residents and staff members.
照顾患有痴呆症的居民既具有挑战性又不可预测。为养老院居民提供的活动通常有规则，这可能会让患有晚期痴呆症的居民感到沮丧。多感官疗法（Snoezelen）在一个有利的环境中提供了一种无失败的活动，既能刺激患有痴呆症的居民，又能让他们放松。密苏里州凡尔赛的好牧人养老院开展了一项为期一年的基于结果的质量改进项目，以确定使用多感官疗法是否可以减少居民所遭受的行为症状数量。虽然使用多感官疗法仍然存在障碍，但好牧人养老院的员工认为，对居民和工作人员来说，使用多感官疗法都是一次成功且有益的经历。
