Towards personalized dementia care through meaningful activities supported by technology: A multisite qualitative study with care professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Person-centred care is widely recognised as important for helping people with dementia maintain a sense of self and purpose in life - especially for those living in care facilities. Despite this, most care practices still adopt a medical approach in which physical needs are prioritized over psychosocial well-being. Addressing the need to find ways of promoting person-centred approaches in care, this study explored care professionals' reflections on a novel, technological intervention (SENSE-GARDEN) that combines multisensory stimuli and digital media to create personalized environments for people with dementia. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of care professionals who had used SENSE-GARDEN for approximately 1 year.

Methods

Three care homes in

SUBMITTER: Goodall G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8380345 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature