Nursing Strategies for Enhancing Calm in Arab Elderly with Dementia: Integrating Snoezelen Methods, Aromatherapy, and Personal Items to Reduce Agitation.

Background: Agitation significantly impacts Arab elders with dementia. Multisensory stimulation, such as Snoezelen, shows promise but lacks exploration in Arab contexts.
Objective: Evaluate a culturally adapted multisensory intervention—combining Snoezelen, aromatherapy, and personal items—on agitation in Arab elders with dementia.
Methods: A quasi-experimental design assessed 31 patients receiving the intervention against 31controls. Agitation, quality of life, and neuropsychiatric symptoms were measure using the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI) and the Neuro psychiatric Inventory (NPI).
Results: The intervention group exhibited notable reductions in CMAI scores for aggression and agitation behaviors (p<0.001) and improvements in quality of life and NPI scores for agitation/aggression and depression/dysphoria(p<0.001).
Conclusion: This culturally tailored multisensoryapproacheffectivelyreducedagitationandimprovedwell-beinginArabdementiapatients.Thefindingsadvocateforfurtherresearchandsuggestsuchinterventions can be beneficial in culturally diverse dementia care settings.