The effect of person-centred dementia care to prevent agitation and other neuropsychiatric symptoms and enhance quality of life in nursing home patients: A 10-month randomized controlled trial

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 340-353

  Rokstad, Anne Marie Mork ^a   Røsvik, Janne ^b   Kirkevold, Øyvind ^b,c,d   Selbaek, Geir ^c,e   Saltyte Benth, Jurate ^e,f   Engedal, Knut ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b VESTFOLD HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^c INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agitation; Dementia; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Person centred care; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; COHEN MANSFIELD AGITATION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA CARE MAPPING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY QUESTIONNAIRE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIPS PRACTICE MODEL; WELLBEING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890521814     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000354366     Document Type: Article

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