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The effect of integrated emotion-orientated care versus usual care on elderly persons with dementia in the nursing home and on nursing assistants
— a randomized clinical trial | | Author(s) | Evelyn Finnema, Rose-Marie Dröes, Teake Ettema |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 4, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 330-343 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Management [care] ; Residents [care homes] ; Care home staff ; Clinical surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | "Emotion-oriented care", introduced in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1993, is defined as "care aimed at improving emotional and social functioning, and ultimately the quality of life of people suffering from dementia by assisting them with coping with the cognitive, emotional and social consequences of the disease, and by linking up with the individual functional abilities and the subjective perceptions of the individual". Participants were 146 residents with diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), mixed DAT and vascular dementia, and dementia syndrome, together with 99 nursing assistants in 14 nursing homes in the Netherlands. Positive effects of the integrated emotion-oriented care were found in mild and moderately demented residents on two adaptive tasks: maintaining an emotional balance (less anxiety) and preserving a positive self-image (less dissatisfaction). In the trained group of nursing assistants, fewer stress reactions were found only in those who perceived improvement in their emotion-oriented skills and training. While emotion oriented care was more effective for those with mild to moderate dementia, no surplus value was found for the severely demented. For nursing assistants, it is concluded that emotion-oriented care has a positive influence on stress reactions in some of them. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050516210 A |
| Classmark | EA: QA: KX: QRM: 3G: 76H |
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