Risk Negotiation With People With Dementia: From Co-designed Paper Version to Implementation Preparation of an Electronic Conversation Tool.

ABSTRACT: The home care workforce provides essential support for older people with dementia to live a life of fulfillment. "Enabling Choices," an evidence-informed conversation tool, aims to negotiate risk around everyday activities between home care workers, people with dementia and their informal carers. This paper describes tool conversion into electronic format and preparation for implementation throughout a large Australian health and aged care service provider, utilizing the Implementation Framework for Aged Care (IFAC). Using codesign principles, the tool was converted from paper-based to electronic format involving frontline, operational and Information Management Services staff, and people with dementia/carers. Focus groups and interviews identified tool acceptability, feasibility, a

SUBMITTER: Meyer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9885029 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature