Improving living and dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a realist review of Namaste Care and other multisensory interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seventy percent of people with advanced dementia live and die in care homes. Multisensory approaches, such as Namaste Care, have been developed to improve the quality of life and dying for people with advanced dementia but little is known about effectiveness or optimum delivery. The aim of this review was to develop an explanatory account of how the Namaste Care intervention might work, on what outcomes, and in what circumstances.

Methods

This is a realist review involving scoping of the literature and stakeholder interviews to develop theoretical explanations of how interventions might work, systematic searches of the evidence to test and develop the theories, and their validation with a purposive sample of stakeholders. Twenty stakeholders - user/patient represe

SUBMITTER: Bunn F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6282262 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature