Effects of COVID-19 nursing home restrictions on people with dementia involved in a Supportive Care programme.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supportive Care is a person-centred approach encompassing non-pharmacological interventions targeted towards persons with dementia to contain the effects of their behavioural disorders, improving their quality of life.

Aims

To investigate the effects of lockdown restrictions during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on behavioural symptoms of patients involved in a Supportive Care programme in an Italian nursing home.

Methods

Analysis is based on Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) scores and related symptoms data collected before (October/November 2019) and after (July 2020) the introduction of COVID-19 restrictions on a non-random sample of 75 patients living in two units of the facility: 38 involved in a Supportive Care programme and 37 receiving standard

SUBMITTER: Paccagnella O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447520 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature