Personalized Goal Attainment in Dementia Care: Measuring What Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers Want.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop a process of goal-setting and measurement of goal attainment in a dementia care management program.

Design

Observational.

Setting

Dementia care management program in an urban academic medical center.

Participants

Persons with dementia (N=101) and their caregivers; nurse practitioner dementia care managers (N=5).

Intervention

Specification of a personalized health goal and action plan and measurement of goal attainment using goal attainment scaling in a clinical care visit.

Measurements

Goal attainment at 6 and 12 months; focus groups of 5 dementia care managers.

Results

Eighty-four percent of participant goals were nonmedical, 47% were related to quality of life, and 29% were caregiver support goals. Eighty-eight perce

SUBMITTER: Jennings LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7023482 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature