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Peer reviewedDickinson, Joan Ivers; And Others – Gerontologist, 1995
To control wanderers' exiting, the view and light through a window were manipulated using visual barriers: window blind, cloth barrier, and a combination of the two. The closed blind decreased exiting by 44% while the cloth barrier was 96% effective. Combining the blind and cloth barrier lessened exiting by 88%. (RJM)
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Behavior, Design, Gerontology
