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8 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 350 (2020)
Behavioural Changes in Institutionalised Older People: A Gender Perspective

handle is hein.journals/techssj8 and id is 354 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 8, 350-357, June 2020 ISSN: 2668-7798 www.techniumscience.com Behavioural changes in institutionalised older people: a gender perspective Pinazo-Clap~s, Carolina Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Spain - university carolinapinazo@gmail.com Pinazo-Hernandis, sacramento Universidad de Valencia, Spain - university sacramento.pinazo@uv.es Sales-Galin, Alicia Universidad de Valencia, Spain - university alicia.sales@uv.es Abstract. There is a need to redefine and improve the treatment and care given in residences for the elderly from a non-pharmacological perspective that fosters person-centred care. In particular, the psychological and behavioural symptoms associated with dementia require a multidisciplinary evaluation to design appropriate interventions. The objective is to evaluate behavioural disorders in a group of residing elderly people and analyse whether the gender of the participants influences the presence of these behaviours. In the methodology, the group is consisted of 450 people, 73.6% women and 26.4% men with an average age of 86.82 (WD=8.22). The results show that women have a greater risk of presenting behavioural disorders. Men tend to present higher levels of anxiety, lack of inhibition, sleeping disorders, and loss of appetite; while women present more affective symptoms such as anxiety, euphoria, or apathy, or more psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, and more aberrant motor behaviours. This influence is only significant for delusions and aberrant motor behaviour. The discussion and conclusions of the study show that gender influences behavioural disorders. This type of research work is very scarce because may be of great interest to develop and improve preventive strategies and non-pharmacological use of these symptoms in residence for the elderly settings. Keywords. Behavioral disorders; dementia; gender; residency; psychopharmaceuticals 1. Introduction Recent socio-economic events in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a growing interest in improving the intervention, treatment and care of older people (Bonanad, 2020). One of the major problems affecting this sector of the population are neurodegenerative diseases, specifically dementias, which have already become one of the main causes that can affect the autonomy of the elderly (Barragin, Garcia, Parra and Tejeiro, 2019). The neurodegenerative process associated with a set of cognitive, physical and behavioural symptoms caused by brain dysfunction has a great impact worldwide, as it was indicated in the World Alzheimer's Report published in 2018. This report shows that approximately 50 million 350

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