Analysis of the Types of Dementia Patients for Development of Clothes for Dementia Patient in Nursing Homes

The role of caregivers for dementia patients to improve health care is not yet optimal. Dementia patient care is an experience-based effort for complex dementia patients that can increase the psychological pressure of caregivers. The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the caregiver's role in dementia patients to improve health care. Search strategies for English-language studies that are relevant to the topic are carried out using the ScienceDirect, SagePub, Springer databases limited from 2014 to 2020. The keywords used are "caregiver", "dementia", "health care", "role". Fulltext articles are reviewed to select studies that fit the criteria. The inclusion criteria in this review are health workers, caregivers. A search using the keywords above with the ScienceDirect, SagePub, Springer database that met the inclusion criteria was only 22 articles. Research examined in this article uses a variety of methods, namely systematic literature review by 1 articles, RCT by 4 articles, interview by 1 articles, qualitative study by 5 articles, quasi-experimental study 2 article, participatory research of 1 article, bootstrapping methods of 1 article, scoping review of published literature by 1 articles, quantitative study by 1 articles, cohort study path analysis by 1, a survey to clarify the evaluation by 1, SEM by 1, standardized protocol by 1. Research using random techniques as much as 10 articles, while those using non-random techniques as many as 12 articles. The role of caregivers for dementia patients to improve health care is an effective experience-based effort and is the most appropriate activity for elderly patients with dementia. Enhance the role of the caregiver by changing the caregiver's perception of a more positive view of his role.

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Where is God when dementia sneaks into our house? Practical theology and the partners of dementia patients

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v72i4.3227 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 72 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria Bons-Storm

Keyword(s):

Practical Theology ◽

Dementia Patient ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Theological Perspective ◽

Heavy Burden ◽

The Subject ◽

Night And Day ◽

Practical Theological ◽

Person With Dementia ◽

Creation Stories

How can hope, love and faith stay alive when dementia enters a home? In this article I shall look especially at the spouse or partner who shares an abode with a person with dementia. Most of the authors in this field, also John Swinton who is perhaps the best known author whose books are written from a (practical) theological perspective, focus on care in institutions, that means care by professionals. A partner living with a dementia patient has two main roles: as partner and caregiver. Night and day a partner is witness to the ongoing deterioration of her or his beloved partner, without being a professional. This article is founded not only on literature about dementia patients, but also on the experiences of several partners, as well as my own experiences as a partner. The question we all ask is: ‘From where does our strength come?’ I argue that what is said in the literature on the subject of (the pastoral care for) dementia patients does not help the partners, because it lays a heavy burden on them, who are already suffering from feelings of grief and guilt. I do not agree with John Swinton’s idea that God created dementia. Looking for different ways of thinking about God and faith to survive with hope and love, I turn to the exegesis of the creation stories by Ellen van Wolde. These give the opportunity to take the evil of the situation of the deterioration of the personality of a patient with dementia seriously, and at the same time grant the possibility to turn the grief and guilt feelings into strength to fight evil, together with a God whose empathy and love stays with a partner in her or his loneliness and grief.Keywords: dementia; partner care; guilt feelings; evil; God as ally

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Hip fracture risk in patients with dementia in German primary care practices

Dementia ◽

10.1177/1471301215621854 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 16 (7) ◽

pp. 853-864 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jens Bohlken ◽

Louis Jacob ◽

Peter Schaum ◽

Michael A Rapp ◽

Karel Kostev

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Hip Fracture ◽

Nursing Homes ◽

Fracture Risk ◽

Antidepressant Drugs ◽

Hip Fracture Risk ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Fracture Development ◽

Care Practices ◽

Primary Care Practices

The aim was to analyze the risk of hip fracture in German primary care patients with dementia. This study included patients aged 65–90 from 1072 primary care practices who were first diagnosed with dementia between 2010 and 2013. Controls were matched (1:1) to cases for age, sex, and type of health insurance. The primary outcome was the diagnosis of hip fracture during the three-year follow-up period. A total of 53,156 dementia patients and 53,156 controls were included. A total of 5.3% of patients and 0.7% of controls displayed hip fracture after three years. Hip fracture occurred more frequently in dementia subjects living in nursing homes than in those living at home (9.2% versus 4.3%). Dementia, residence in nursing homes, and osteoporosis were risk factors for fracture development. Antidementia, antipsychotic, and antidepressant drugs generally had no significant impact on hip fracture risk when prescribed for less than six months. Dementia increased hip fracture risk in German primary care practices.

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Dementia Patient’s Meal Monitoring Systems Using Weight and Temperature Sensors

10.20944/preprints202103.0036.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ji-Eun Joo ◽

Haewon Hwang ◽

Yujin Jeon ◽

Jaewon Jung ◽

Yu Hu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Nursing Homes ◽

Communication Networks ◽

Elder Care ◽

Senile Dementia ◽

Low Cost ◽

Temperature Sensors ◽

Monitoring Systems ◽

Wireless Communication Networks ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Crucial Information

: This paper presents a couple of meal monitoring systems for senile dementia patients by using electronic weight and temperature sensors. These monitoring systems enable to convey the information of the amount of meal taken by the patients in real-time via wireless communication networks onto the mobile phones of their families or nurses in charge. Thereby, the nurses can easily spot the most desperate patient to take care of while the families can have relief to see the crucial information for survival of their parents at least three times a day. Meanwhile, the senile dementia patients tend to suffer the burn of their tongues because they can hardly recognize the temperature of hot meals served and therefore avoid the burn of tongues. This phenomenon can be discarded by utilizing the meal temperature monitoring system which displays alarm to the patients when the meal temperature is above the reference. These meal monitoring systems can be easily implemented by utilizing low-cost sensor chips and Arduino UNO boards so that elder-care hospitals and nursing homes can afford to exploit them with no additional cost. Hence, we believe that the proposed monitoring systems would be a potential solution to provide a great help and relief not only for the professional nursing nurses working in elder-care hospitals and nursing homes, but also for the families of the dementia patients.

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Elderspeak to Resident Dementia Patients increases Resistiveness to care in health care profession

10.31124/advance.9825419 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Fan-Ping Meng ◽

Min Zhang ◽

Hui Zhao

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Older Patients ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Routine Activities ◽

Dementia Patient ◽

Negative Feeling ◽

Contributing Factors ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Baby Talk ◽

Resistiveness To Care

Resistiveness to care is very common among patients of dementia as these patients do not take medicines, meals or bath very easily. Amongst different factors, the type of communication between resident dementia patient and health caregiver is an important contributing factors in development of resistiveness to care. Elderspeak (baby talk) is type of communication in which health caregivers adjust their language and style, while interacting with elderly and dependent patients. Most of times, caregivers tend to adapt elderspeak as they handle weak and fragile older patients for routine activities. Although elderspeak is meant to provide support, warmth and care to patients, yet patients perceive elderspeak as patronizing and it induces negative feeling about self-esteem. The present review discusses the studies discussing the use of elderspeak in communication and development of resistiveness to care in resident patients of dementia.

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Family and staff involvement in treating dementia patients in nursing homes

Journal of Clinical Nursing ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2702.1997.00156.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 505-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Ehrenfeld ◽

R. Bergman ◽

R. Alpert

Keyword(s):

Nursing Homes ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Staff Involvement

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Emotional reactions toward people with dementia – results of a population survey from Germany

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610213002056 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 435-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Olaf von dem Knesebeck ◽

Matthias C. Angermeyer ◽

Daniel Lüdecke ◽

Christopher Kofahl

Keyword(s):

Response Rate ◽

Mail Survey ◽

Emotional Reactions ◽

Dementia Patient ◽

Social Reactions ◽

Private Households ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

People With Dementia ◽

Person With Dementia

ABSTRACTBackground:Emotional reactions toward people with disorders are an important component of stigma process. In this study, emotional reactions of the German public toward people with dementia were analyzed.Methods:Analyses are based on a national mail survey conducted in 2012. Sample consists of persons aged 18 to 79 years living in private households in Germany. In all 1,795 persons filled out the questionnaire, reflecting a response rate of 78%. Respondents were asked about their emotional reactions and beliefs about dementia.Results:A vast majority of the respondents expressed pro-social reactions, i.e. they felt pity, sympathy, and the need to help a person with dementia. Dementia patients rarely evoked anger (10% or less). Between 25% and 50% of the population showed reactions indicating fear. Respondents who had contacts with a person having dementia or had cared for a dementia patient tended to show less negative reactions (fear, anger) and more pro-social reactions. Respondents who showed pronounced fearful reactions were less likely to believe that dementia patients had a high quality of life, were less willing to care for a family member with dementia at home, and were more skeptical about early detection of dementia. Comparison with the results of another study suggests that fearful reactions toward persons with dementia are much more pronounced than in the case of depression, and less pronounced than in the case of schizophrenia.Conclusions:Fearful reactions toward people with dementia are quite common in the German general public. To reduce fear, educational programs and contact-based approaches should be considered.

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Recording care time in nursing homes: development and validation of the “RUD-FOCA” (Resource Utilization in Dementia – Formal Care)

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610210000487 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 1291-1300 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Katharina Luttenberger ◽

Elmar Graessel

Keyword(s):

Nursing Home ◽

Nursing Homes ◽

Activities Of Daily Living ◽

Resource Utilization ◽

Daily Living ◽

Direct Care ◽

Formal Care ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Home Recording

ABSTRACTBackground: Currently there is no standardized procedure for recording direct care time of dementia patients in a nursing home. Recording the direct care time, however, provides an important component of both cost estimates for time-dependent reimbursement of nursing activities and for recording the degree of dependency as an outcome measure for the efficiency of new treatment methods for dementia patients. The purpose of this study is thus to develop and validate the “RUD-FOCA” (Resource Utilization in Dementia – Formal Care), based on the RUD lite, as a standardized tool to measure the direct care time actually required in the nursing home.Methods: Based on four hypotheses, construct validity was tested within a randomized controlled trial in a sample of 148 residents in six German nursing homes. The RUD-FOCA records the care time in three areas: activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and supervision. For validation, the residents’ capabilities were examined using the Barthel Index, the Nurses’ Observation Scale on Geriatric Patients (NOSGER), the Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS), the Erlangen Test on Activities of Daily Living (E-ADL) and the Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE). The hypotheses assume relationships between the time required for care in the three areas and the limitations involved in these areas. The retest reliability was also determined.Results: ADL care accounts for two-thirds of total care time in the homes. The hypotheses which refer to total time, ADL and supervision are supported by differentiated correlation profiles. The IADL hypothesis is not supported owing to even, low correlations. The retest reliability was r = 0.76 for the entire care time.Conclusions: Overall time and the times for ADL care and supervision can be considered valid estimates. The validity is lowest for recording IADL times. Thus, the RUD-FOCA is suitable as an instrument to determine the direct care time in the nursing home. Recording IADL times should be improved by detailed operationalization.

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408 - PREDICTING CAREGIVER HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF DEMENTIA PATIENT SOCIOEMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610220002616 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (S1) ◽

pp. 126-126

Author(s):

Marcela C. Otero ◽

Casey L. Brown ◽

Robert W. Levenson

Keyword(s):

Marital Satisfaction ◽

Relationship Satisfaction ◽

Physical Health ◽

Cognitive Functioning ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

Dementia Patient ◽

Socioemotional Functioning ◽

Caregiver Health ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Wide Range

Dementia caregiving is associated with a variety of negative outcomes including poor caregiver mental and physical health and low relationship satisfaction. Prior research has linked these negative caregiver outcomes to patients’ cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. However, few studies have examined the link between patients’ socioemotional functioning and caregiver outcomes. We examined how patients’ socioemotional functioning was related to caregiver marital satisfaction, physical health, and psychopathology in a sample of 103 caregivers of dementia patients (with a wide range of diagnoses). Measures included: (a) patient socioemotional functioning (Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning), (b) patient cognitive functioning (Mini-Mental State Exam), (c) patient psychiatric symptomatology (Neuropsychiatric Inventory), (d) caregiver marital satisfaction (Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test), (e) caregiver physical health (Medical Outcomes Study Health Survey), and (f) caregiver psychopathology (Symptom Checklist-90 -Revised). Results indicated that poor patient socioemotional functioning predicted lower levels of caregiver marital satisfaction (beta= −.45, p < .001) and physical health (beta= −.25, p < .05), and greater caregiver psychopathology (beta= .41, p < .001), above and beyond patient cognitive functioning and psychiatric symptoms. These findings suggest that low levels of socioemotional functioning in patients make important and unique contributions to negative caregiver outcomes.

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Structure factorielle d’une version française du Nursing Home Behavior Problem Scale

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ◽

10.1017/s0714980814000014 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 163-175

Author(s):

July Fraser ◽

Philippe Landreville ◽

Philippe Voyer ◽

Pierre-Hugues Carmichael

Keyword(s):

Nursing Home ◽

Nursing Homes ◽

Behavior Problem ◽

Behavioural Problems ◽

Term Care ◽

French Version ◽

Measuring Devices ◽

Dementia Patients ◽

Secondary Objective ◽

Key Dimensions

ABSTRACTSeveral measuring devices are available to assess specific behavioural problems of dementia patients residing in nursing homes but only a few have been translated and validated in French. This study’s main objective was to determine the factorial structure of the French version of the Nursing Home Behavior Problem Scale (NHBPS) with people suffering from dementia. A secondary objective was to document the variables associated with the global score of the NHBPS and the underlying dimensions of the instrument. Participants (n = 155) were diagnosed with dementia and resided in three nursing homes and a hospital’s long-term care unit. The presence of behavioural problems and other characteristics were assessed by two nurses. A factor analysis revealed five key dimensions in the francophone version of the questionnaire. Several variables were associated with the total score of the NHBPS and its five underlying dimensions. Although the factorial solution of the French version of the NHBPS is similar to the English versions, our results also show differences that may depend on methodological characteristics.

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