The use of stimulation may be deemed an appropriate intervention strategy regardless of whether one views wandering as a way to increase the stimulation input or to reduce stress/anxiety.
In fact, in the first case, the stimulation intervention could serve as a means to provide such an input [7, 17, 18].
In the second case, the person’s active engagement with the stimulation event could be seen as instrumental to set aside his or her stress/anxiety-related malaise, thus producing negative reinforcement effects [17, 18].