DEPENDENCY-SUPPORT SCRIPT
The stragey where care givers consistently meet the needs of an older adult who is receiving care.
DERMATOGLYPHICS
The study of the lines on the skin of the hands, fingers and soles of the feet.
DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH
An empirical investigation to test a hypothesis or to look at conditions, relationships.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Branch of psychology dealing with changes from conception into old age. Introduction Understanding the complexities of human growth across the…
DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING
The failure to see a problem because the symptoms are attrinuted to another disability. See dual dignosis.
DIFFERENTIAL ACCURACY
The way of determining how accurately a person's traits differ from the sterotype attributed to them such as age or…
DIFFERENTIAL RELAXATION
Technique where we exert only the muscle tension required for an activity.
DIRECT SCALING
A way to develop numerical scales of magnitude of psychological factors where the observer makes a judgement on size of…