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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"People living with dementia"”.
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Ambient assisted living deployment aims to empower people living with dementia (AnAbEL)
Ambient Assisted Living aims to support the wellbeing of people with special needs by offering assistive solutions. Those systems focused on dementia claim to increase the autonomy of people living with dementia by monitoring their activities. Thus, topics such as Activity Recognition related to …
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Dementia friendly flying: investigating the accessibility of air travel for people living with Dementia
A diagnosis of dementia should not mean the end of a person’s ability to participate in meaningful activities. However, accessibility for people living with dementia requires improvement across a range of settings. Anecdotal evidence and critical incident reporting suggests that air travel is not …
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Personal Constructs in Dementia Caregiving: The Family Caregiving Experience of People Living with Dementia in Saudi Arabia
… and in-home) caregiving of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia has become a critical issue in the Arab region, including Saudi Arabia. This doctoral research psychometrically and conceptually evaluates an Arabic version of the Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver …
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The use of ‘off-the-shelf’ GPS technology to support people living with dementia and their care partners
… explores the perceptions and experiences of people living with dementia and their care partners on off-the-shelf Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. ‘Off-the-shelf’ GPS devices are readily available, without a specific use attached and are often more economical than products labelled …
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Acceptability of and adherence to a Tai Chi exercise intervention to prevent falls among older people living with dementia.
… in preventing falls, however, few have involved people living with dementia and explored their experiences. The aim of this PhD thesis was to fill this gap by exploring the experiences of dyads (formed of a person living with mild-to-moderate dementia and their informal carer) taking part in a …
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Out and about : a sensory ethnographic study of therapeutic landscape experiences of people living with dementia in the wider community
… healthier and a better quality of life for older people, there is yet a dearth of evidence on how older people with dementia negotiate and experience the wider community. The aim of the present study is therefore to explore experiences of social and spatial engagement in the wider community for …
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What are social workers’ perceptions of needs and services to LGBT people living with dementia and what factors influence their perceptions?
… perceptions of needs and services towards LGBT people living with dementia and the factors that influence their perceptions. The focus of the study is primarily related to social workers practicing in England with data collected within this context. The literature identifies that members of the …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
… of hospital result in poor outcomes for older people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. Yet their perspectives …
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Hospital and care home nurse perspectives on optimising care for people living with dementia who transfer between hospitals and care homes
… of hospital result in poor outcomes for older people. Research investigating transitions for care home residents living with dementia is limited, even though such residents often have multi-morbidities and frequently use hospital services. Nurses are key care providers. Yet their perspectives …
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Establishing the priorities for dementia care curricula in higher education: the views of carers of people living with dementia and Admiral Nurses
… on understanding the perspective of carers of people living with dementia and Admiral Nurses. The aim being to produce a broader insight into understanding dementia care education priorities in the higher education curricula for student nurses. To achieve this the study focused on four research …
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The map of me: caring through clothing. An empathic co-design, art-based intervention that explores personhood through garments of significance for people living with dementia
… as a trigger to excavate the lived experience of people living with dementia. The global prevalence of dementia is over 50 million and is set to rise to 152 million by 2050 (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2021). People who live with dementia often live at home and are cared for by primary …
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Co-designing a Decision-Making Roadmap to Support Caregivers of People Living with Dementia: A Knowledge-to-Action Approach Using Integrated Knowledge Translation and Graphic Medicine
Background: Caregivers of people living with dementia frequently act as substitute decision-makers and are required to make numerous health, personal, legal and care-related decisions throughout the dementia trajectory. Despite the complexity and longitudinal nature of this role, existing supports …
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Elder abuse in South Africa: measurement, prevalence and risk
Abuse towards older people is a global public health and human rights concern and considered a hidden pandemic due to underreporting. It has been estimated that 1 in 6 people aged 60 and older have experienced abuse at some point, with World Health Organization estimating that only 4% of cases are …
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Care needs of people with dementia in perioperative environments from the perspective of healthcare professionals : exploring professional experiences of person-centred dementia care
People living with dementia represent a growing patient population within surgical services, yet their complex care needs are often unmet in the high-pressure perioperative environment. Research on dementia in surgical contexts remains fragmented, with limited guidance for practice, poor …
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Positive experiences in older people with early stage dementia
… 1 is a systematic literature review entitled ‘Living Positively with Dementia’. The notion that people living with dementia can have positive experiences in spite of - or even because of - their illness remains widely disputed. In light of this controversy and the potential conceptual and …
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More Than Tea And Cake: A Realist Evaluation Of Memory Cafés In Cornwall
… a growing community based response to supporting people living with dementia and their carers. They are now well established in the UK and elsewhere; with over forty cafés in Cornwall. Despite their growth, there has been little research into their structure, aims and impact. Aims: The aim of this …
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Emotional and systemic experiences of having a partner living with dementia
It is predicted that the number of people living with dementia worldwide will increase to 135.5 million by 2050 (World Health Organization, 2016). Moreover, the majority of people living with dementia are cared for within a community setting, primarily by their partner or family members. As a …
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A Bioethical Perspective on Navigating Dementia Care
… aims to outline the current challenges for people living with dementia in receiving quality care based on prominent public health policies and guidance, and to explore how advancements in technology can be utilised to improve aspects of caregiving and therefore the quality of life of those …
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To Know Their Stories: Using Playbuilding to Develop a Training/Orientation Video on Person-Centered Care
… staff and family members who provide support for people living with dementia and traumatic brain injury. Using a playbuilding methodology (Belliveau, 2006; Norris, 2009; Perry, Wessels & Wager, 2013) in which theatre performers devised short vignettes based on focus group interviews with health …
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Naděje dožití bez demence v Evropě
Dementia-free life expectancy in Europe Abstract Population ageing is associated with a growing number of people living with dementia. Although improvements in healthcare have led to increases in life expectancy at birth, it remains unclear to what extent this also means longer healthy lives. This …
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