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Open AccessDevelo** an Intervention for Fall-Related Injuries in Dementia (DIFRID): an integrated, mixed-methods approach
Falls in people with dementia can result in a number of physical and psychosocial consequences. However, there is limited evidence to inform how best to deliver services to people with dementia following a fal...
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Open AccessWhat enables good end of life care for people with dementia? A multi-method qualitative study with key stakeholders
People with advanced dementia often experience suboptimal end of life care (EoLC) with inadequate pain control, increased hospitalisation, and fewer palliative care interventions compared to those with cancer....
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Open AccessIs it feasible to deliver a complex intervention to improve the outcome of falls in people with dementia? A protocol for the DIFRID feasibility study
People with dementia (PWD) experience ten times as many incident falls as people without dementia. Little is known about how best to deliver services to people with dementia following a fall. We used an integr...
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Open AccessExpert views on the factors enabling good end of life care for people with dementia: a qualitative study
Dementia, of all long term illnesses, accounts for the greatest chronic disease burden, and the number of people with age-related diseases like dementia is predicted to double by 2040. People with advanced dem...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the challenges to implementing case management for people with dementia in primary care in England: a qualitative study using Normalization Process Theory
Case management has been suggested as a way of improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of support for people with dementia. In this study we adapted and implemented a successful United States’ model of ca...
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Open AccessMaking sense of a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for fear of falling: qualitative study of intervention development
Fear of Falling (FoF) is commonly reported among older adults (up to 50%) and can impact negatively on physical and social activities, mood and quality of life. This paper explores the development, acceptabili...
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Open AccessThe STRIDE (Strategies to Increase confidence, InDependence and Energy) study: cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention to reduce fear of falling in older fallers living in the community - study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Around 30% to 62% of older individuals fall each year, with adverse consequences of falls being by no means limited to physical injury and escalating levels of dependence. Many older individuals suffer from a ...
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Open AccessImplementing nutrition guidelines for older people in residential care homes: a qualitative study using Normalization Process Theory
Optimizing the dietary intake of older people can prevent nutritional deficiencies and diet-related diseases, thereby improving quality of life. However, there is evidence that the nutritional intake of older ...
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Open AccessPatient preferences for future care - how can Advance Care Planning become embedded into dementia care: a study protocol
People living with a long term condition may wish to be able to plan ahead, so that if in future they cannot make decisions, their wishes about their care will be known; this process is termed Advance Care Pla...
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Improving Professional Practice in the Disclosure of a Diagnosis of Dementia: A Modeling Experiment to Evaluate a Theory-Based Intervention
Among health professionals, there is wide variation in the practice of disclosing a diagnosis of dementia to patients.
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Types of centredness in health care: themes and concepts
Background For a variety of sociological reasons, different types of centredness have become important in health and social care. In trying to characterize one type of centredness, we wer...
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Open AccessAppropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia: identifying the key behaviours of 'best practice'
Despite growing evidence that many people with dementia want to know their diagnosis, there is wide variation in attitudes of professionals towards disclosure. The disclosure of the diagnosis of dementia is in...
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Open AccessThe development of a theory-based intervention to promote appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia
The development and description of interventions to change professional practice are often limited by the lack of an explicit theoretical and empirical basis. We set out to develop an intervention to promote a...
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Open AccessWhich factors explain variation in intention to disclose a diagnosis of dementia? A theory-based survey of mental health professionals
For people with dementia, patient-centred care should involve timely explanation of the diagnosis and its implications. However, this is not routine. Theoretical models of behaviour change offer a generalisabl...
