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Producing ‘Top Tips’ for care home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: rapid reviews inform evidence-based practice but reveal major gaps
(2020-10-22)
This paper analyses learning from the first three months of the COVID-19 crisis in the UK. It takes the example of a project that responded to questions and concerns raised by front-line care staff by producing research-based ...
Advance care planning for people living with dementia: An umbrella review of effectiveness and experiences
(2020-07)
Abstract Background: End of life care is often inadequate for people with dementia. Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the ...
Components of palliative care interventions addressing the needs of people with dementia living in long term care: a systematic review
(2020-04-01)
Background: People with dementia requiring palliative care havemultiple needs that require complex, multicomponent interventions. Thisneed is amplified in the long term care setting. The European Associationfor Palliative ...
Setting priorities to inform assessment of care homes’ readiness to participate in healthcare innovation: a systematic mapping review and consensus process
(2020-02-05)
Organisational context is known to impact on the successful implementation of healthcare initiatives in care homes. We undertook a systematic mapping review to examine whether researchers have considered organisational ...
A group intervention to improve quality of life for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: the Namaste feasibility cluster RCT
(2020-01-01)
Background: People with advanced dementia who live and die in nursing homes experience variable quality of life, care and dying. There is a need to identify appropriate, cost-effective interventions that facilitate ...
A four-stage process for intervention description and guide development of a practice based intervention: refining the Namaste Care intervention implementation specification for people with advanced dementia prior to a feasibility cluster randomised trial
(2019-10-21)
Background Some interventions are developed from practice, and implemented before evidence of effect is determined, or the intervention is fully specified. An example is Namaste Care, a multi-component intervention for ...
Using non-participant observation to uncover mechanisms: insights from a realist evaluation
(2019-08-08)
This article outlines how a realist evaluation of dementia care in hospitals used non-participant observation to support the refinement and testing of mechanisms likely to lead to the use of person-centred care. We found ...
Supporting general hospital staff to provide dementia sensitive care: A realist evaluation
(2019-08-01)
Background: There are an increasing number of interventions to improve hospital care for patients with dementia. Evidence for their impact on staff actions and patient outcomes is, however, limited and context dependent. ...
Palliative care for people with dementia living at home: a systematic review of interventions
(2019-07-01)
Background: The European Association for Palliative Care White Paper defined optimal palliative care in dementia based on evidence and expert consensus. Yet, we know little on how to achieve this for people with dementia ...
Improving living and dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a realist review of Namaste Care and other multisensory interventions
(2018-12-06)
Background: Seventy percent of people with advanced dementia live and die in care homes. Multisensory approaches, such as Namaste Care, have been developed to improve the quality of life and dying for people with advanced ...