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Wandering
It can happen without warning, the first time, to someone who has never done it. If someone is missing right now, use the checklist; below is what the library holds, which is little.
If someone is missing right now: the first 15 minutes → Search inside first, then call 911 and say the words “this person has dementia”. The full checklist, and how to prepare before it ever happens.What the research library holds
47 of the library's 27,380 studies match; 3 have it in the title. The 8 shown are the title matches first, then the highest-scoring.
Only 3 of the library's 27,380 studies have wandering in the title, and 47 mention it anywhere in the record we hold. That is a gap in this library's coverage, not evidence that wandering is little studied; the practical guidance on the safety page comes from published caregiver guidance, not from these studies.
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“There is always a reason why someone is doing something”: The importance of life history and personhood when supporting people with dementia to “wander” in care homes
Up to 60% of people living with dementia who reside in care homes will ‘wander’ at some point.
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Graphic designed bedroom doors to support dementia wandering in residential care homes: Innovative practice
Dementia-friendly designs are important in residential care homes but an aspect that remains neglected is the potential role of door designs in promoting wayfinding.
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Classifying Alzheimer’s wandering and apathetic behaviours using indoor and outdoor localization data
Dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, is increasing due to population ageing and is projected to nearly triple by 2050.
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Nonpharmacological Interventions to Reduce Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Systematic Review
Mentions it: “Introduction Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are defined as a group of symptoms of disturbed perceptive thought content, mood, or behavior that include agitation, depression, apathy, repetitive questioning, psychosis, aggression, sleep problems, and wandering.”
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Exploring the effect of companion robots on emotional expression in older adults with dementia: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Mentions it: “Participants were assessed three times using the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease, Rating Anxiety in Dementia, Apathy Evaluation, Geriatric Depression, and Revised Algase Wandering Scales.”
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Sensing Technology to Monitor Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms and to Assess Treatment Response in People With Dementia. A Systematic Review
Mentions it: “Half of the studies investigated how temporarily dense data on motion can be utilized as a proxy for behavior, indicating high validity of using motion data to monitor behavior such as sleep disturbances, agitation and wandering.”
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Remote Physical Activity Monitoring in Neurological Disease: A Systematic Review
Mentions it: “In dementia, remote physical activity measures correlate with disease severity and can detect wandering.”
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Prevalence, correlates and course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in the population
Mentions it: “The co-occurrence of the symptoms was explained by a four-factor solution, corresponding to psychosis/apathy, depression/anxiety, irritability/persecution and wandering/sleep problems.”
How a study gets onto this list: its own title, summary, findings or note contains one of these terms — wander, wandering (not “mind-wandering”), getting lost, elopement, missing person. A study matched only in its text is shown with the sentence that matched, word for word. A score rates how much weight a study can bear, not whether its result is good news: how we score a study.