PREVALENCE OF BEHAVIOR DISORDER AND DISTURBANCE TO FAMILY AND STAFF IN A SAMPLE OF ADULT DAY HEALTH-CARE CLIENTS

Latent class-derived prevalence estimates of behavior disorder are pro vided for adult day health care (ADHC) clients; informal and formal ca regivers reported 11% and 14%, respectively, of these clients as engag ing in severe disturbed behavior (95% confidence intervals across sour ces are from 7% to 18%). The prevalences, estimated for informal and f ormal caregivers respectively, were 12% and 16% for affective disorder , 15% and 18% for cognitive disorders, 16% and 13% for verbal-vocal ag itation, and 6% and 8% for socially inappropriate behavior. These rate s can be contrasted with those of the institutional population which, while higher, overlap with the distribution of behavior disorder for A DHC community residents. The degree of reported disturbance to family and staff was similar across items.