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Enriching opportunities for people living with dementia in nursing homes
— an evaluation of a multi-level activity-based model of care | | Author(s) | Dawn J Brooker, Rosemary J Woolley, David Lee |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 11, no 4, July 2007 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 361-370 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Activities of older people ; Recreation ; Therapy ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | This paper reports on evaluation of the Enriched Opportunities Programme for improving well-being, diversity of activity, health and staff practice in nursing home care for people with dementia. Participants were 127 residents with a diagnosis of dementia or enduring mental health problems in three specialist nursing homes in the UK. A repeated measures within-subject design was used, collecting questionnaire and quantitative and qualitative data at three points over a 12-month period in each home and follow-up 7 to 14 months later. Two-way ANOVAs revealed a statistically significant increase in the number of positive staff interventions, but no change in the number of negative staff interventions overall. There was a significant reduction in levels of depression. No significant changes in anxiety, health status, admissions to hospital, or psychotropic medication use were observed. The Enriched Opportunities Programme demonstrated a positive impact on the lives of people with dementia in nursing homes already offering a relatively good standard of care in a short period of time. The refined programme requires further evaluation to establish its portability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081124217 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: G: H: LO: 4C: 3J |
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