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Articles by: Kirkevold, Øyvind

Factors to make the VIPS practice model more effective in the treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home residents with dementia

Background/Aims: A recent cluster-randomized controlled study showed that the VIPS practice model (VPM) for person-centred care had a significant effect on neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home residents with dementia. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) indicated that a substantial proportion of the total variance of the effects was related to conditions in the particular unit (ward). […]

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

Aims: We examined whether Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) or the VIPS practice model (VPM [Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the Perspective of the person with dementia (P); and a positive Social environment in which the person living with dementia […]

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