Costs of a Staff Communication Intervention to Reduce Dementia Behaviors in Nursing Home Care.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias experience behavioral symptoms that frequently result in nursing home (NH) placement. Managing behavioral symptoms in the NH increases staff time required to complete care, and adds to staff stress and turnover, with estimated cost increases of 30%. The Changing Talk to Reduce Resistivenes to Dementia Care (CHAT) study found that an intervention that improved staff communication by reducing elderspeak led to reduced behavioral symptoms of dementia or resistiveness to care (RTC).

Objective

This analysis evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the CHAT intervention to reduce elderspeak communication by staff and RTC behaviors of NH residents with dementia.

Design

Costs to provide the intervention were determined i

SUBMITTER: Williams KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5425099 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature