Social networks, social capital and end-of-life care for people with dementia: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) To develop an understanding of how social capital may be conceptualised within the context of end-of-life care and how it can influence outcomes for people with dementia and their families with specific reference to the context and mechanisms that explain observed outcomes. (2) To produce guidance for healthcare systems and researchers to better structure and design a public health approach to end-of-life care for people with dementia.

Design

A realist review.

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and grey literature.

Analysis

We conceptualised social capital as a complex intervention and, in order to understand how change is generated, used realist evaluation methods to create different configurations of context, mechanism and outcomes. We conduc

SUBMITTER: Sawyer JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924787 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature