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A suite of evaluation resources for Dementia Friendly Communities: Development and guidance for use
(2022-11-30)
Objectives: In the context of a growing number of dementia friendly communities (DFCs) globally, a need remains for robust evaluation, and for tools to capture relevant evidence. This paper reports the development of a ...
Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis
(2022-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Care homes are complex settings to undertake intervention research. Barriers to research implementation processes can threaten studies' validity, reducing the value to residents, staff, researchers and funders. ...
Dementia Friendly Communities: The Involvement of People Living with Dementia
(2022-01-28)
Background Dementia Friendly Communities (DFCs) offer an approach to community engagement to improve the lives of people living with dementia and their family supporters. The involvement of those living with dementia is ...
The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review
(2022-01-07)
Abstract: Background: Care homes provide long term care for older people. Countries with standardised approaches to residents’ assessment, care planning and review (known as minimum data sets (MDS)) use the aggregate data ...
Uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes in England : A realist review protocol
(2020-11-14)
Introduction Care homes provide nursing and social care for older people who can no longer live independently at home. In the UK, there is no consistent approach to how information about residents' medical history, care ...
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 ...
A survey of the experience of living with dementia in a dementia friendly community
(2020-10-08)
Dementia Friendly Communities (DFCs) are one way in which people living with dementia can be supported to be active, engaged and valued citizens. Quantitative evaluations of the experiences of those with dementia living ...