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While the article describes a number of unconventional care practices — from providing chocolates and liquor to reducing use of antipsychotic drugs to making cosmetic changes to rooms to improve resident mood and behavior — it is important to note that though these practices are unusual, they should not be exceptional.
Care staff ratings were significantly predicted by resident mood and awareness/responsiveness.
As research has found that pleasant activities improve resident mood [ 54], we also hypothesize that participants in the social interaction group will demonstrate improvements in mood and other indices of quality of life.
The findings of this study offer novel evidence about predictors of care staff proxy ratings of quality of life, identifying resident mood and awareness/responsiveness as key predictors with a more limited contribution from staff emotional exhaustion and ethnicity.
Factors identified in previous studies as predictors of staff ratings on other quality of life measures are resident mood, cognition, functional ability or dependency, neuropsychiatric symptoms and behavioural difficulties [ 1, 4, 30– 30].
The key predictors of care staff ratings in this study were resident mood, awareness/responsiveness (indicated by the AwareCare RI), and prescription of benzodiazepine medication, together accounting for 26.7% of variance.
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Finally, of course, his escape was physical and most of his music was conceived and recorded in exile". Among the few outsiders whose vision of Belfast has chimed with its residents' mood is techno duo Orbital, who gave the city's name to a mournful electronic elegy after playing live there in 1990.
Notable improvements in the residents' mood following music therapy and music activities were frequently reported.
Staff emphasised the relaxing effect of music on residents' mood and its consequent effect on their care home environment.
Staff, families and therapists all recognised residents' mood changes were often unpredictable as so many variables in the care homes affected their mood.
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