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The concept of green care farms for older people with dementia
— an integrative framework | | Author(s) | Simone de Bruin, Simon Oosting, Akke van der Zijpp |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 9, no 1, February 2010 |
| Pages | pp 79-128 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com DOI: 10.1177/1471301209354023 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Activities of older people ; Outdoor life ; Day centres ; Comparison ; Cross sectional surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | In the Netherlands. community-dwelling older people with dementia can attend regular day care services (RDCS). Since approximately 2000, farms (so-called 'green care farms') also offer day care. The present study introduces the concept of green care farms for older people with dementia. The authors further provide an integrative framework for the expected health benefits of day care at green care farms (GCF) for older people with dementia. The authors present an overview of evidence for dementia-related interventions that correspond with the current developments in health care (i.e. environmental, activity-based and psychosocial interventions), and that are relevant for day care. They subsequently focus on the differences between day care at GCF and RDCS with regard to these interventions, and describe the integrative framework for the expected health benefits of GCF for older people with dementia. They conclude that GCF interventions are naturally integrated in the environment, and are present simultaneously and continuously, which is more difficult to realize in RDCS. It is hypothesised that GCFs have more health benefits for older people with dementia than RDCS. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100716205 A |
| Classmark | EA: G: HS: NMC: 48: 3KB: 76H |
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