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Objective: This study investigated social networks of residents of a nursing home including residents with Alzheimer disease. We focus on friendship networks between residents to investigate the mutual relationship between social communication and friendship companies and how they affect the Alzheimer disease process and vice versa.
Methods: We used methods of SNA including interviews, observations and social network analyses. The setting was a nursing home in Tehran with 42 residents that 10 of them were diagnosed with Alzheimer disease. The cross-sectional data were collected within this nursing home. Using SNA as a useful tool in Alzheimer researches has the potential to create new ideas and plans for a better caring and attributing special policies and strategies to residents with Alzheimer in nursing homes in order to prevent, control and treat for Alzheimer disease.
Results: this study showed that resident with Alzheimer or dementia have dramatically less relationships with others in comparison to the normal residents.
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Kermani, M.A.M.A., Sani, S.A., Zand, H. (2021). Resident’s Alzheimer Disease and Social Networks Within a Nursing Home. In: Benito, R.M., Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Moro, E., Rocha, L.M., Sales-Pardo, M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications IX. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 2020. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 944. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65351-4_27
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