Empowering interventions for people living with dementia: A European survey.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We aim to identify existing empowerment interventions for people living with dementia and to explore which used interventions and projects are considered empowering and why.

Design

This was an online survey.

Methods

We conducted an online survey between May 2018 and July 2018 amongst professionals interested in dementia care in Europe. Interventions were clustered within the ecological model for health promotion. Reasons from respondents as to why they considered interventions to be empowering were analysed and structured according to a recently developed conceptual framework of empowerment for people living with dementia.

Results

Seventy-three respondents from 23 countries together mentioned 98 interventions or projects, of which 90 were unique. Intervent

SUBMITTER: van Corven CTM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796734 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature