Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many people living with advanced dementia live and die in nursing care homes. The quality of life, care and dying experienced by these people is variable. Namaste Care is a multisensory programme of care developed for people with advanced dementia. While there is emerging evidence that Namaste Care may be beneficial for people with dementia, there is a need to conduct a feasibility study to establish the optimum way of delivering this complex intervention and whether benefits can be demonstrated in end-of-life care, for individuals and service delivery. The aim of the study is to ascertain the feasibility of conducting a full trial of the Namaste Care intervention.

Methods and analysis

A feasibility study, comprising a parallel, two-arm, multicentre cluster cont

SUBMITTER: Froggatt K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6254402 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature