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| Staff opinions about the leadership and organisation of municipal dementia care | | Author(s) | L Albinsson, P Strang |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 10, no 5, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp 313-322 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Personnel ; Attitude ; Management [care] ; Qualitative Studies ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | A qualitative study used a modified phenomenological approach to analyse tape-recorded semi-structured interviews with 31 staff members employed in municipal dementia care in urban and rural areas of mid-Sweden. The almost unanimous opinions of interviewees indicated that there was a great lack of daily leadership in the units. Few of the units had clearly formulated goals, and few had regular care planning for their residents. Poorly developed teamwork was reported in the care of people with dementia, especially regarding doctors, whose visits to the units were too infrequent and too short, and did not include a direct exchange of information with other staff. In addition, little or no staff education and guidance / supervision was provided on a regular basis. The study concludes that without any unreasonable increase in cost, measures such as introducing clear leadership at the care unit level, concentrating on multi-professional teamwork, and providing education and guidance/supervison to staff would probably result in better care for patients with dementia and their families. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020925202 A |
| Classmark | EA: QM: DP: QA: 3DP: 76P |
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