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Jan 27, 2017 · Dementia education and training should include direct practical competencies required for effective care (Jones et al 2013). Professional and informal carers need practical tips on how to care appropriately for and respond sensitively and receptively to someone with dementia.
Jun 1, 2023 · Care staff in dementia care often feel inadequately trained to provide specialized care and thus demand dementia education. The overview of systematic reviews reveals that care staff experience a distinct increase in knowledge, self-efficacy, and positive attitude towards dementia when participating in educational programs on dementia.
Ensuring an informed and effective dementia workforce is of international concern; however, there remains limited understanding of how this can be achieved. This review aimed to identify features of effective dementia educational programs.
May 4, 2022 · This article proposes a set of dementia nursing care competencies that reflect current scientific findings on neurodegenerative dementia diseases, communication and shared decision-making, supportive care management for symptoms of distress and deficits in activities of daily living, risk assessments for adverse outcomes, palliative care and ...
Mar 9, 2021 · If nurses are not skilled in caring for dementia patients, suboptimal care may be given. Accurate assessments in recognising dementia and managing physical and behavioural symptoms can ease patients’ stress and significantly improve their well-being, as well as nurses’ caregiving experience.
- Cris S Adolfo, Abdulrhman Saad B Albougami, Mark Y Roque, Joseph U Almazan
- 2021
May 1, 2022 · Since nurses are frontline healthcare professionals and are trusted to provide quality care for people with dementia (Kimzey et al., 2019), this review has focused solely on dementia education methods among nursing students.
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Dementia education programmes are pivotal in preparing nursing students for effective dementia care. The co-production and design involvement of people living with dementia in curricula development is recommended to enhance relevance and applicability.
