Progressive Support for Activities of Daily Living for Persons Living With Dementia.

ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives:Dementia is accompanied by increasing need for support in activities of daily living (ADLs). This brief report/literature review summarizes the practices to care for early stage, middle stage, and late stage ADL needs (dressing, toileting, and eating/nutrition), and examines commonalities across ADL needs and the extent to which practices are reflected in guidelines and/or evidence. Research Design and Methods:A review of the grey and peer-reviewed literature, using some but not all procedures of a systematic review. Key terms were identified for ADLs overall and for each of the 3 ADLs, and a search was conducted using these words in combination with (a) dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and similar terms, and (b) practices, interventions, guidelines, recommendations

SUBMITTER: Prizer LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881654 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature