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The quality challenge
— caring for people with dementia in residential institutions in Europe - a transnational study, October 1999 | | Author(s) | Susan Tester |
| Corporate Author | Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia; European Commission |
| Publisher | Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia, Edinburgh, 1999 |
| Pages | 38 pp |
| Source | Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia, 22 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7RN. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Quality ; Comparison ; Europe ; United Kingdom ; Netherlands ; Italy ; Spain. |
| Annotation | People with dementia require a highly individualised approach to their care which must take account of their changing health, personal, social, cultural and accommodation needs over many years. A significant number will need long-term care in a residential institution as an inevitable consequence of the illness. This report explores comparisons of provision and quality of residential institutional care for people with dementia in four European countries: the UK, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. The study aims to provide base-line information on the role of institutional care in the continuum of care of people with dementia; to evaluate the effectiveness of different policy approaches; to promote awareness of effective policy innovations; and to promote the diffusion and adoption of innovative approaches throughout the EU (European Union). In spite of advances in recent years, institutional care for people with dementia remains an underdeveloped area of policy. Good quality care will most appropriately be provided in small scale living units. The importance of seeing the person with dementia as an individual whose choices are to be respected must be central to all policy developments. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991026208 B |
| Classmark | EA: KW: LHB: QA: 59: 48: 74: 8: 76H: 76V: 76S |
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