Exploring self-experience practices in dementia care: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recognised as essential for high-quality dementia service, person-centred care aims to understand and respect the unique needs of each individual. Self-experience practices may offer caregivers an opportunity to acquire knowledge, empathy, and skills related to person-centred care, especially through recreating experiences similar to dementia. Given the need to enhance the understanding of self-experience practices in dementia care, a more comprehensive investigation of these training interventions for (future) caregivers is needed.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review to map the evidence on the use of self-experience practices in dementia training. We systematically searched Cochrane Library, MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, and Web of Science. We also searched for g

SUBMITTER: Wittmann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11075864 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature