Windle G, Roberts J (2023) From deficits to possibilities: the role of resilience. Journal of Dementia Care 31(2) 32-35. Despite being a well-known idea among other clinical groups, “resilience” has had less exposure as a concept in the dementia field. Gill Windle and Jennifer Roberts explore the features of resilience and how to use the...
Self-assessment scale for care management This research developed a self-assessment scale for the management of care for people living with dementia. Key factors were: (1) ‘Person centred care’, (2) ‘Understanding of disease characteristics, treatment and care’, (3) ‘Understanding of people with dementia and care management according to their characteristics’ and (4) ‘Utilization of local resources’. ...
Blogging for people with dementia Stories of living with dementia are becoming more common in the public domain and these qualitative interviews explored the motivations and experiences of six UK bloggers. While offering practical challenges, blogging offered a valuable, personalised space for people with dementia to tell their own stories in their own way. Motivations...
Research Reports, Sept/Oct 2022. Journal of Dementia Care 30(5) 37-38. GP care continuity Consulting the same doctor consistently (CGPC) is known to increase quality of care but its effects on people living with dementia are mostly unknown. Using a range of measures, this retrospective study of the medical records of 9324 patients with dementia aged...
Person-centred communication Despite ongoing research and clinical focus on person-provider communication, these authors highlight the absence of a comprehensive theoretical position to underpin person-centred communication in dementia and older adult research. They employed several person-centred care and communication theoretical perspectives to ground the study, then developed a Person-Centred Communication Enhancement Model. The discussion provides an...
Fans of the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks will have seen the story of Luke and his son Ollie unfolding. It is not just any soap opera storyline about dementia, but an unusual one both in terms of its portrayal and the apparently meticulous research that the actors and programme makers have done. Luke has been...
Community Support Services Current policy guidance recommends that people diagnosed with mild-to-moderate dementia receive information and psychosocial interventions to improve their ability to ‘live well’ but it remains unclear to what extent this is achieved. This study collected information from over 1500 people living with dementia and over 1200 carers in England. It identified that...
VIPS practice model in primary healthcare Professionals in services that had used the VIPS practice model in Norway for over 12 months were interviewed. These included nursing home physicians and managers/ leaders of domestic care, day centres and activity services. The findings after VIPS implementation show a change in focus from task to person, a...
Carrying out research in care homes can be challenging because it fails to consider resources within those homes or take a collaborative approach. In the first of a series of articles Isabelle Latham and colleagues introduce their answer to this problem, the Care Home Action Researcher-in residence Model (CHARM), and explain how it works. Conducting research in care...
Lesley Hobbs, Tony Charlton and Stuart Wright describe a study in which older secondary school students were supported and helped to befriend ‘low interacting’ care home residents, including those with dementia. Author/s: Lesley Hobbs, Tony Charlton, Stuart Wright For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive...