Assessing Momentary Well-Being in People Living With Dementia: A Systematic Review of Observational Instruments.

ABSTRACT: Optimizing the possibility to lead good lives is at the core of treatment and care for people with dementia. This may be monitored by assessing well-being and quality of life. However, cognitive impairment following dementia may complicate recall-based assessment with questionnaires, and proxy-ratings from family-caregivers do not correspond well to self-reports. Thus, using observational measures represents a potentially advanced option. Systematic reviews evaluating measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of observational instruments assessing well-being in people living with dementia are lacking. Thus, this review performed systematic searches to find peer reviewed validated instruments of relevance in the databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, CINAHL and

SUBMITTER: Madso KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8649635 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature