Person-centred and task-centred care: Impact on mealtime behaviours in nursing home residents with dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mealtime is a critical daily activity to ensure nutrition, hydration, function and socialisation. Interactions between staff and residents during mealtimes are complex and dynamic processes including verbal and/or nonverbal communication that can be positive/neutral or challenging. This study examined characteristics of and relationships between person-centred and task-centred care and positive/neutral and challenging mealtime behaviours in persons with dementia.

Methods

This study was a secondary behavioural analyses of videotaped mealtime observations (n = 110) involving 42 unique staff-resident dyads (29 staff and 25 residents with dementia) in nine nursing homes. The refined Cue Utilization and Engagement in Dementia mealtime video-coding scheme was used to

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9976786 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature