“…Persons who rank high on this trait enjoy new activities and like to explore their environment, whereas persons who rank low on this trait prefer more conventional activities. Traits remain relatively stable in adulthood (Hooker & McAdams, 2003), and there is evidence that facets of extraversion and the trait of openness maintain both rank order and mean level stability in dementia (Chatterjee, Strauss, Smyth, & Whitehouse, 1992;Siegler et al, 1991;Strauss, Lee, & Di Filippo, 1997). These long-standing tendencies have been used to identify activity interests in persons with dementia, and improved prescriptive precision over current approaches (Kolanowski, Buettner, Costa, & Litaker, 2001).…”