Language-Based Strategies that Support Person-Centered Communication in Formal Home Care Interactions with Persons Living with Dementia.

ABSTRACT: Language-based strategies are recommended to improve coherence, clarity, reciprocity, and continuity of interactions with persons living with dementia. Person-centered care is the gold standard for caring for persons with dementia. Person-centered communication (PCC) strategies include facilitation, recognition, validation, and negotiation. Little is known about which language-based strategies support PCC in home care. Accordingly, this study investigated the overlap between language-based strategies and PCC in home care interactions. Analysis of conversation of 30 audio-recorded interactions between personal support workers (PSWs) and persons living with dementia was conducted. The overlap between PCC and language-based strategies was analyzed. Of 11,347 communication units, 2578 overlapp

SUBMITTER: Mundadan RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996793 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature