Social connectivity and creative approaches to dementia care: the case of a poetry intervention

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Kate de Medeiros ◽  
Aagje Swinnen
Keyword(s):  
Social Bonds ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Connectivity ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Imaginative Play ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
The Impact

This chapter draws together four concepts — resilience and flourishing, creativity and play — to explore the impact of poetry interventions in the lives of people with dementia living in a care facility. Participatory arts programmes can provide opportunities for people to be reminded of their humanness and re-membered as valuable human beings. Opportunities to be creative and engage with others contribute to resilience or the ability to transcend many dementia-associated losses. Through imaginative play, regardless of cognitive ability, people can express and/or enact important aspects of meaning and selfhood/personhood that might otherwise go unacknowledged in the care environment. While arts interventions may not be able to reverse cognitive decline, the case study points to ways that the poetry intervention creates a time–space in which people can ‘flourish’, express affinity with others, and foster social bonds, and how, in turn, these contribute to meaningful moments in people's lives.

The Impact of a Dementia-Friendly Garden Design on People With Dementia in a Residential Aged Care Facility: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 193758672110634
Author(s):  
Parinaz Motealleh ◽  
Wendy Moyle ◽  
Cindy Jones ◽  
Karine Dupre
Keyword(s):  
Care Facility ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Garden Design ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Aged Care Facilities ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facilities ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Background: There is a paucity of evidence on the efficacy of garden design based on dementia-friendly environment (DFE) characteristics on the level of agitation, apathy, and engagement of people with dementia in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Objective: To investigate the effect of a garden improved according to DFE characteristics on agitation, apathy, and engagement of people with dementia in one RACF. Methods: A case study design with a mixed-method approach was used. Results: There was no significant improvement in the level of participants’ agitation following visits to the improved garden, χ2(2) = 5.167, p = .076. A high level of engagement was found in participants during the intervention (Week 1-1, p < .01; Week 1-2, p < .01; Week 2, p < .01; Week 3, p < .05; and Week 4, p < .05) when compared to before intervention (Week 0). A higher level of apathy was found in participants at Week 0 when compared to during the intervention (Week 1-1, p < .05; Week 1-2, p < .01; Week 2, p < .05; Week 3, p < .01; and Week 4, p < .01). Five themes emerged from participant interviews: the presence of sensory-provoking elements in the garden, meaningful engagement in the garden, accessibility of the garden, garden impacts, and garden experiences that demonstrated the effectiveness of the garden. Conclusions: The garden promoted engagement and decreased apathy of people with dementia living in the RACF with the researcher’s partial facilitation of the intervention sessions. The qualitative findings indicated the effectiveness of the garden in reducing agitation.

scholarly journals Insights into the impact and use of research results in a residential long-term care facility: a case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A Cranley ◽  
Judy M Birdsell ◽  
Peter G Norton ◽  
Debra G Morgan ◽  
Carole A Estabrooks
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Term Care Facility ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Long Term Care Facility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Residential Long Term Care

scholarly journals Living in a care home during COVID-19: a case study of one person living with dementia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Davies-Abbott ◽  
Catrin Hedd Jones ◽  
Gill Windle
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to understand the lived experience of a person living with dementia in a care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It responds to the absence in research of the voices of people with dementia living in care homes during the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a single case study design applied thematic analysis to semi-structured interview data to discover the experiences of one person living with dementia in a care home during a period of lockdown. Findings Five themes reveal how the participant responded to the practical and emotional challenges of the pandemic: autonomy; fears; keeping connected; keeping safe and other people living with dementia. These themes highlight the participant’s ability to adapt, accept and dispute lockdown restrictions, revealing considerable insight into their situation. Research limitations/implications The pandemic has restricted access to care homes, which informed the single case study design. This approach to the research may restrict the generalisability of the findings. Other researchers are encouraged to include the voices of people with dementia living in care homes in further studies. Practical implications Implications for practice, presented in this paper, promote quality psychosocial approaches when health-care workers engage with people living with dementia during periods of restricted activity. Originality/value Unlike other studies about the impact of the pandemic on care homes, this paper explores the experience of the pandemic in care homes from the perspective of a person living with dementia.

scholarly journals Intelligent human-centric lighting for mental wellbeing improvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 155014771987587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Cupkova ◽  
Erik Kajati ◽  
Jozef Mocnej ◽  
Peter Papcun ◽  
Jiri Koziorek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Workplace Productivity ◽  
Ip Camera ◽  
Color Psychology ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, the main area of interest in the issue of influencing mental states of people is the impact of lighting on human beings, their wellbeing but also workplace productivity. This work discusses in detail the problem of positively influencing people using intelligent technologies, especially the role of the colors. We describe techniques and technologies needed to implement the case study of an intelligent lighting system. The system proposed can detect humans from an IP camera, find faces, and detect emotion. The main aim is to adjust the lights accordingly to the emotional result to improve the mood of people while taking into consideration the principles of color psychology and daytime. We have evaluated our case study solution in a real-world environment and collected the feedback from participants in the form of a questionnaire. Evaluation of participants’ wellbeing was based on their subjective statements. There were several ideas on further functionality extension which needs to be explored. Among them is including wearable devices to the proposed system, validate the emotional results according to them, but also determine the impact of an increasing number of users interacting with the system at the same time.

scholarly journals Geo-Tagged Social Media Data-Based Analytical Approach for Perceiving Impacts of Social Events

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruoxin Zhu ◽  
Diao Lin ◽  
Michael Jendryke ◽  
Chenyu Zuo ◽  
Linfang Ding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Research Work ◽  
City Management ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Data

Studying the impact of social events is important for the sustainable development of society. Given the growing popularity of social media applications, social sensing networks with users acting as smart social sensors provide a unique channel for understanding social events. Current research on social events through geo-tagged social media is mainly focused on the extraction of information about when, where, and what happened, i.e., event detection. There is a trend towards the machine learning of more complex events from even larger input data. This research work will undoubtedly lead to a better understanding of big geo-data. In this study, however, we start from known or detected events, raising further questions on how they happened, how they affect people’s lives, and for how long. By combining machine learning, natural language processing, and visualization methods in a generic analytical framework, we attempt to interpret the impact of known social events from the dimensions of time, space, and semantics based on geo-tagged social media data. The whole analysis process consists of four parts: (1) preprocessing; (2) extraction of event-related information; (3) analysis of event impact; and (4) visualization. We conducted a case study on the “2014 Shanghai Stampede” event on the basis of Chinese Sina Weibo data. The results are visualized in various ways, thus ensuring the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed framework. Both the methods and the case study can serve as decision references for situational awareness and city management.

Namaste Care™: A Person-Centered Care Approach for Alzheimer’s and Advanced Dementia

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula McNiel ◽  
Judith Westphal
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Hospital Readmissions ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Long Term Care Facility ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Impact

New methods of care are required to meet the needs of people with dementia and their caregivers. The Namaste Care™ program provides a person-centered approach through meaningful activities and loving touch. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of residents, staff, and family involved in the Namaste Care™ program at a long-term care facility in the United States. A descriptive approach was used to interview 14 staff members. The findings revealed six themes: peaceful sanctuary, relating their way, transforming experiences, connections and community, positive moments, and awakened to the possibilities. Results suggest that Namaste Care™ may be useful for individuals no longer able to participate in traditional long-term care setting activities. Further studies are indicated to confirm the impact on hospital readmissions, therapy enhancement, and medication use in relationship to Namaste Care™ program participation.

The passage of a painting: The learning process of students creating art for people with dementia

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Shields ◽  
Alison Phinney
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Care ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Impact

Making Art for Making Place, a joint education and research project, engaged post-secondary fine arts students in the creation of paintings for residents of a transitional care facility. The purpose of the project was to explore how improving the living environment through art could benefit the residents with dementia while considering the impact this had on the students themselves. This article draws from participant observations and follow-up interviews to examine the learning experiences of students who created paintings for the facility. Further, it explores the impact on their learning through interactions with nurses and expert researchers who joined the class to participate in group discussions and share their expertise working with people living with dementia. The research revealed that the project fostered positive community building; engaged students in discussions and reflections about how art affects people; prompted consideration of experiences of the elderly ‐ particularly those with dementia; and expanded understandings of the roles of art in the society.

scholarly journals Factors associated with successful dementia education for practitioners in primary care: an in-depth case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Sass ◽  
Natasha Burnley ◽  
Michelle Drury ◽  
Jan Oyebode ◽  
Claire Surr
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dementia Education

Abstract Background With increasing numbers of people in the UK living with dementia, the provision of good quality person-centred care that meets the often complex needs of this population is required. Given the majority of people with dementia live in the community, significant care and support will be provided by primary care services. This means the primary care workforce needs appropriate education to ensure they have the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet these care needs. However, little is understood about the most successful approaches to dementia education in this setting. Methods An in-depth case study was undertaken in a single primary care organisation with the aim of exploring the impact of a person-centred dementia educational programme, and identify barriers and facilitators to implementation. Data was gathered from a wide range of sources and analysed using Kirkpatrick’s evaluative framework. Results Initially, staff learners struggled to incorporate the ‘whole-person’ approach to dementia care, but gained knowledge and confidence through self-directed learning. They reacted positively to the training and appreciated opportunities to learn from peers in other services. They identified improvements in communication and prescribing practices, despite difficulties implementing changes during busy periods. Resultant impact for service users included more timely routine appointments, and positive satisfaction ratings from patients and families. Conclusions The findings indicate the perceived value of person-centred dementia education for primary care. Further recommendations for provision in this service setting include tailored programmes designed collaboratively with clinical service providers, and bringing together an interdisciplinary mix of learners to enhance knowledge exchange.

Brazilian Gymnastics in a Crucible: A Media Data Case Study of Serial Sexual Victimization of the Brazilian Men’s Gymnastics Team

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. S1-25-S1-35
Author(s):  
Michelle E. Seanor ◽  
Cole E. Giffin ◽  
Robert J. Schinke ◽  
Diana A. Coholic
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Social Connectivity ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Holistic Interpretation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Data

Elite gymnastics sport culture is presently under global scrutiny. Largely ignited by the highly publicized case of serial sexual abuses in USA Gymnastics, multiple national gymnastics teams have disclosed stories of athlete abuse. Our author team utilized media data to investigate the serial sexual abuses that occurred on the Brazilian Men’s Gymnastics Team. Using media data to conceptualize athlete maltreatment is novel and facilitated our holistic interpretation of athlete maltreatment across multiple levels of athletes’ developmental systems. The authors traced the media coverage temporally and identified four overarching themes: (a) uncovering the case (subthemes—the Brazilian sport context; the Brazilian men’s gymnastics context; the club context), (b) before abuse was identified (subthemes—the coach–athlete dyad: before disclosure; the athlete: a lost childhood; social connectivity: isolation; the gymnastics system: mechanisms of abuse), (c) when abuse was recognized (subthemes—the coach–athlete dyad: athlete resistance; the athlete: identifying the impact; social connectivity: building connections; the gymnastics system: consequences of abuse), and (d) the legacy of abuse (subthemes—the coach–athlete dyad: ongoing abuses; the athlete: cyclical victimization; social connectivity: expanding connections; the gymnastics system: after abuse). Utilizing media data facilitated our culturally contextualized interpretation of athlete abuse to present tailored recommendations for practitioners.

Building design for people with dementia: a case study of a UK care home

Facilities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 349-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee H. Fisher ◽  
David John Edwards ◽  
Erika Anneli Pärn ◽  
Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Living Space ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact that building design has upon the quality of life for residents of a care home who have dementia. To present a balanced perspective, carers within the care home also participate in the research. Design/methodology/approach A case study methodological approach was adopted using one care home, ten residents and five staff as a sample frame. During interviews conducted, participants were asked semi-structured questions on how building design features impact upon the quality of life of residents. Questions posed focussed upon key design principles that emerged from a detailed review of extant literature. Findings Building design for people with dementia must consider a complex array of features to provide a safe and habitable living space for residents and family members who visit. This living space must also be suitably utilitarian and provide a workable environment for staff. Hence, an appropriate balance between these two competing requirements must be attained, and often a tailor-made solution is required that fits the individual’s level of dementia. Three prominent areas that study participants expressed a desire for were a safe environment; support for wayfinding, orientation and navigation; and access to nature and the outdoors. Originality/value The work reports upon the rarely discussed issue of building design for people with dementia and could be used by policymakers and construction firms to enhance their knowledge capabilities in this area. The research concludes with direction for future research which should seek to provide more evidence-based research vis-a-vis perception enquiry and extend this seminal work to a larger sample of care homes or people with dementia living at home.

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