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We did a study, a survey of 1400 patient care staff. This was mostly nursing staff, nurse's aides, and the single thing that was most disturbing to the staff, were disturbed behaviors of older adults. These numbers are quite high. You can see that almost 80% of the staff was disturbed by patients who were uncooperative, patients who were argumentative, demanding. Over 60% were disturbed by patients who were confused and agitated, who wandered, who were up during the night and even were disturbed by patients who sought reassurance. So this is quite interesting.