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The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: effects on certified nurse assistants

Background: To improve care for residents with depression in dementia, an evidence based nursing guideline was developed. Using the guideline has already shown positive effects on depression in psychogeriatric nursing home residents.; Objective: To study the effects of the introduction of the nursing guideline ‘depression in dementia’ on perceived professional autonomy, workload and feelings of […]

Prognostic factors for a favourable long-term outcome from an integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home programme

Background/aims: The prevalence of multiple psychiatric symptoms (MPS) in psychogeriatric patients is about 80%. MPS have negative effects on caregivers; 70-80% of caregivers are moderately to heavily burdened. We tested an integrative psychotherapeutic programme (IRR) focused on MPS as well as caregiver burden. To develop decision rules in indicating IRR, prognostic potentialities of diagnostic and […]

Integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home program to reduce multiple psychiatric symptoms of cognitively impaired patients and caregiver burden: randomized controlled trial

Objective: To test the effectiveness of an integrative psychotherapeutic nursing home program (integrative reactivation and rehabilitation [IRR]) to reduce multiple neuropsychiatry symptoms (MNPS) of cognitively impaired patients and caregiver burden (CB).; Design: Randomized controlled trial.; Setting: Psychiatric-skilled nursing home (IRR) and usual care (UC), consisting of different types of nursing home care at home or […]

Improved end-of-life care for patients with dementia: greater family satisfaction and possibly greater end-of-life comfort

Objective: To analyse possible trends in families’ evaluations of the quality of end-of-life care and the quality of dying in dementia.; Design: Analysis of individual patient data from 3 studies (2 solely retrospective (after death) and 1 partly prospective).; Method: We combined data on 372 residents with dementia from 38 nursing homes and 13 residential […]

A validated risk score to estimate mortality risk in patients with dementia and pneumonia: barriers to clinical impact

Background: The clinical impact of risk score use in end-of-life settings is unknown, with reports limited to technical properties.; Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study to evaluate clinical impact of a validated mortality risk score aimed at informing prognosis and supporting clinicians in decision-making in dementia patients with pneumonia. We performed a trial (n = […]