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The effective ingredients of social support at home for people with dementia
— a literature review | | Author(s) | Elaine Argyle, Tony Kelly, John Gladman, Rob Jones |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 25, no 2, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 110-119 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jica |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Home care services ; Informal care ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Recent years have seen an increasing reliance on social support at home for people with dementia, and the advocacy of a person-centred and integrated approach in its provision. However, little is known about the effective ingredients of this support and how they differ from more generic or health-based services. The existing evidence base is explored, by a review of relevant literature, combining a systematic search and selection of articles with a narrative analysis. The review identified 14 relevant studies of varying research designs, which yielded conflicting findings with regard to the optimal timing of interventions and their overall impact. This highlights the problems of review and generalisability when attempting to compare findings of research in this area. This was exacerbated by the blurred divide between health and social care and ambiguities in the meaning of the latter. The review identifies relevant issues which need further investigation and tentative themes emerging from the literature, which suggest the utility of an adequately resourced, integrated and responsive approach to intervention. Further questions include the precise components that distinguish social care from health care, the optimal timing for the introduction of this care, and whether adherence to good practice in this area can be linked to cost-effectiveness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170421221 A |
| Classmark | EA: NH: P6: 64A |
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