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| A qualitative study of nursing assistants' awareness of person-centred approaches to dementia care | | Author(s) | Paulette V Hunter, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Sharon Kaasalainen |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 6, July 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1211-1237 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Person-centred care ; Nursing homes ; Nursing Auxiliary ; In-service training ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | In Canada, the number of education programmes addressing person-centred approaches to long-term residential dementia care has increased recently, and nursing assistants (NAs) are often the target audience. The authors consider the effectiveness of employee education programmes, by exploring the knowledge NAs acquire through practice. They examined approaches to person-centred care generated during a series of interviews with NAs, and compared these to the content of five frameworks for person-centred dementia care. Their results suggest that although NAs acquire significant knowledge about person-centred dementia care during the course of their work, the application of person-centred care strategies varies across NAs. The authors propose ways of enhancing NA education in order to address gaps in knowledge. They also recommend that attention is given to organisational factors that contribute to variability in practice. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160617204 A |
| Classmark | EA: PAA: LHB: QTE:4UA: QWD: 3DP: 7S |
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