Professional Environmental Assessment Procedure for Special Care Units for Elders with Dementing Illness and Its Relationship to the Therapeutic Environment Screening Schedule

Abstract

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

Unités spécifiques Alzheimer en EHPAD et prise en charge des troubles sévères du comportement: réflexion sur les critères de définition et missions

“…Tout d'abord, le PEAP (Physical Environmental Assessment Protocol) mis au point par Lawton et al qui évaluent neuf items : l'orientation, la sécurité, l'intimité, la régulation de la stimulation, la qualité de la stimulation, le soutien des capacités fonctionnelles, la personnalisation et les contacts sociaux [142]. Un groupe de travail du National Institute of Aging [143,144] a développé un second outil d'évaluation, moins soumis à la subjectivité, permettant d'évaluer les différentes caractéristiques d'une structure de soins de type SCU (environnement sûr, rassurant, propice à la santé physique, à l'orientation, respectant l'intimité, facilitant l'autonomie, la stimulation, améliorant la socialisation et permettant une appropriation et une personnalisation des locaux).…”

A Review of: “Institution and Home: Architecture as a Cultural Medium. Edited by Julia Williams Robinson”

“…Robinson herself suggests that future work should look at a wider range of qualities and evaluative criteria rather than using the supra-constructs of institution and home. Perhaps instruments such as the Professional Environmental Assessment Procedure (Lawton et al, 2000) move in this exact direction.…”

Evaluating rural nursing home environments: dementia special care units versus integrated facilities

“…The physical environments of the nursing homes were evaluated using the PEAP (Lawton et al, 2000;Norris-Baker et al, 1999). This instrument was developed to provide a standardized method of expert evaluation of dementia care settings for a national collaborative study of SCUs in the USA (Ory, 1994).…”