When an individual with dementia demonstrates challenging behaviour, resists attempts at care, and becomes aggressive, the tendency is for caregivers to seek a quick fix. Physicians are aware that the ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts related to my new book, The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, which explores mind and behavior, in the ...

Approach-avoidance behaviour represents a fundamental aspect of human interaction with the environment, delineating the inherent tendency to move towards stimuli perceived as positive and away from ...

Anna Sullivan receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The research reported here was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP110100317) and financial and/or in ...

Building on the concept of a basic understanding of challenging behaviour, Figure 2 presents a schematic outlining the steps to follow when dealing with an individual with dementia who is resisting ...