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The value of personalized psychosocial interventions to address behavioral and psychological symptoms in people with dementia living in care home settings
— a systematic review | | Author(s) | Ingelin Testad, Ann Corbett, Dag Aarsland |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 26, no 7, July 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2014 |
| Pages | pp 1083-1098 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Psychiatric treatment ; Person-centred care ; Care homes ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Several important systematic reviews and meta-analyses focusing on psychosocial interventions have been undertaken in the last decade. However they have not focused specifically on the treatment of individual behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) with personalised interventions. This updated systematic review focuses on studies reporting the effect of personalised psychosocial interventions on key BPSD in care homes. The authors undertook a systematic review of the evidence for psychosocial interventions for BPSD, focusing on papers published between 2000 and 2012. All care home and nursing home studies including individual and cluster randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and pre-/post-test studies with control conditions were included. 641 studies were identified, of which 40 fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria. There was good evidence to support the value of personalised pleasant activities with and without social interaction for the treatment of agitation, and reminiscence therapy to improve mood. The evidence for other therapies was more limited. There is a growing body of evidence indicating specific effects of different personalised psychosocial interventions on individual BPSD and mood outcomes. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529300 A |
| Classmark | EA: EP: LP: PAA: KW: 3A:6KC |
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