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Hekler, Eric B.; Buman, Matthew P.; Poothakandiyil, Nikhil; Rivera, Daniel E.; Dzierzewski, Joseph M.; Aiken Morgan, Adrienne; McCrae, Christina S.; Roberts, Beverly L.; Marsiske, Michael; Giacobbi, Peter R., Jr. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
Efficacious interventions to promote long-term maintenance of physical activity are not well understood. Engineers have developed methods to create dynamical system models for modeling idiographic (i.e., within-person) relationships within systems. In behavioral research, dynamical systems modeling may assist in decomposing intervention effects…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Intervention, Health Behavior, Physical Activities

Rader, Joanne – Gerontologist, 1987
Describes specific comprehensive program implemented in intermediate care facility/skilled nursing facility that reduced problematic wandering by patients, increased patient freedom and safety, and increased staff skill and comfort in handling wandering behaviors. Describes program components, problem identification, prevention programs,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Institutional Personnel, Intervention, Mental Disorders

Monsour, Noel; Robb, Susanne S. – Social Work, 1982
Explored the life-styles of elderly wanderers and nonwanderers in long-term care. Paired t-tests confirmed hypotheses indicating that wanderers had engaged in a higher level of social and leisure activities and had experienced more stressful events, motoric reactions to stress, and motoric behavioral styles prior to their illness. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Geriatrics, Intervention, Leisure Time
Wagner, Lisa Smith; Wagner, Todd H. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: Given stereotypes of older adults, there is the perception that older adults will not use health information technologies. One concern is that practitioners might shy away from providing older patients with health information, and in particular, computerized information. The study's primary objective was to evaluate whether a health…
Descriptors: Intervention, Stereotypes, Nurses, Older Adults
Marriott, Cindy – 1974
There is some evidence that the timing of death may not be random. Taking into consideration some of the variables which possibly affect death, this paper reviews intervention techniques with the possible goal of saving lives. Knowing that the elderly respond to the environment, society should accept as its responsibility the provision of support…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Death, Environmental Influences, Intervention