Professional environmental assessment procedure for special care units forelders with dementing illness and its relationship to the therapeutic environment screening schedule

The Professional Environmental Assessment Procedure (PEAP) was developed as a global quality-assessment measure for use by trained professionals in sp ecial care units for older people in dementia units of nursing homes. The P EAP consists of nine ratings whose relationship to another assessment devic e, the Therapeutic Environment Screening Schedule (TESS), is reported. Alth ough designed to be multidimensional, the PEAP as tested in 43 special care units seems to reflect primarily a single evaluative dimension. It correla tes highly with the TESS and may be used either separately or in combinatio n with the TESS.