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| Title |
Meeting psychosocial needs for persons with dementia in home care services – a qualitative study of different perceptions and practices among health care providers
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| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12877-017-0612-3 |
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| Authors |
Anette Hansen, Solveig Hauge, Ådel Bergland |
| Abstract |
The majority of persons with dementia are home-dwelling. To enable these persons to stay in their own homes as long as possible, a holistic, individual and flexible care is recommended. Despite a requirement for meeting psychological, social and physical needs, home care services seem to focus on patients' physical needs. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore how the psychosocial needs of home-dwelling, older persons with dementia were perceived, emphasized and met by home care services. A descriptive, qualitative approach was used. Data were collected through semi-structured focus group interviews with 24 health care providers in home care services from four municipalities. Data were analysed using systematic text condensation. This study showed major differences in how health care providers perceived the psychosocial needs of older home-dwelling persons with dementia and how they perceived their responsibilities for meeting those psychosocial needs. The differences in the health care providers' perceptions seemed to significantly influence the provided care. Three co-existing logics of care were identified: the physical need-oriented logic, the renouncement logic and the integrated logic. The differences in how health care providers perceived the psychosocial needs of persons with dementia and their responsibilities for meeting those needs, influenced how the psychosocial needs were met. These differences indicates a need for a clarification of how psychosocial needs should be conceptualized and who should be responsible for meeting these needs. Further, increased competence and increased consciousness of psychosocial needs and how those needs can be met, are essential for delivering high-quality holistic care that enables persons with dementia to live in their own home for as long as possible. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 120 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 11% |
| Researcher | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 17% |
| Unknown | 38 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 20% |
| Psychology | 17 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 39 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 14 September 2017.
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