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| Title |
Prioritizing problems in and solutions to homecare safety of people with dementia: supporting carers, streamlining care
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| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12877-017-0415-6 |
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| Authors |
Lorainne Tudor Car, Mona El-Khatib, Robert Perneczky, Nikolaos Papachristou, Rifat Atun, Igor Rudan, Josip Car, Charles Vincent, Azeem Majeed |
| Abstract |
Dementia care is predominantly provided by carers in home settings. We aimed to identify the priorities for homecare safety of people with dementia according to dementia health and social care professionals using a novel priority-setting method. The project steering group determined the scope, the context and the criteria for prioritization. We then invited 185 North-West London clinicians via an open-ended questionnaire to identify three main problems and solutions relating to homecare safety of people with dementia. 76 clinicians submitted their suggestions which were thematically synthesized into a composite list of 27 distinct problems and 30 solutions. A group of 49 clinicians arbitrarily selected from the initial cohort ranked the composite list of suggestions using predetermined criteria. Inadequate education of carers of people with dementia (both family and professional) is seen as a key problem that needs addressing in addition to challenges of self-neglect, social isolation, medication nonadherence. Seven out of top 10 problems related to patients and/or carers signalling clearly where help and support are needed. The top ranked solutions focused on involvement and education of family carers, their supervision and continuing support. Several suggestions highlighted a need for improvement of recruitment, oversight and working conditions of professional carers and for different home safety-proofing strategies. Clinicians identified a range of suggestions for improving homecare safety of people with dementia. Better equipping carers was seen as fundamental for ensuring homecare safety. Many of the identified suggestions are highly challenging and not easily changeable, yet there are also many that are feasible, affordable and could contribute to substantial improvements to dementia homecare safety. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 47 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 19 | 40% |
| United States | 8 | 17% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 14 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 51% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 12 | 26% |
| Scientists | 11 | 23% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 124 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 21 | 17% |
| Researcher | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 19% |
| Unknown | 37 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 37 | 30% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 15% |
| Psychology | 9 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 9% |
| Unknown | 41 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2017.
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#1,083,181
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Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#170
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#24,410
of 421,329 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#6
of 58 outputs
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