BOSTON: People with dementia don’t wander into harms way as often as carers and family fear, with a new QUT study finding wandering out of bounds and into a person’s private space occurs only five percent of the time in residential aged care.
Dr Margaret MacAndrew, from QUT’s School of Nursing, has looked at one element of wandering by people with dementia in residential care facilities, focusing on transgressing into out-of-bounds and potentially hazardous areas, such as another resident’s bedroom…