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  1. Quality of Life for Patients with Dementia: A Systematic Review

    Four themes emerged from the research synthesis regarding what. intervention strategies can improve the quality of life for patients with dementia: 1) Validating the Patient's Sense of Self; 2) The Relationship between Caregiver and Patient. 3) The Impact on Patient's Daily Routine and 4) Depression and Mental Health.

  2. Becoming a Family Caregiver to a Person With Dementia: A Literature

    In recent years, dementia has become a worldwide important issue as estimates indicate that the number of individuals living with dementia worldwide will increase from 47 million people in 2015 to 75 million in 2030 and 135 million people by 2050 (Alzheimer's Disease International, 2018; World Health Organization, 2017).Higgs and Gilleard (2017) argue that conditions concerning dementia go ...

  3. PDF Relieving the Burden From Caregivers of Patients With Dementia Rachel

    patient with dementia in the United States at $234 billion in 2019, while the cost for formal care. in the United States in 2019 was estimated to be $290 billion (Alzheimer's Association, 2020). In 2020, it is predicted that 16 million people will provide unpaid, informal care to a person with. dementia.

  4. Nonpharmacological Behavioral Interventions for Patients with Dementia

    This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Collection at ScholarWorks. It has been ... Nonpharmacological Behavioral Interventions for Patients with Dementia: A Systematic Literature Review by Michelle M. Spears MSN, Widener University 2009 BSN, Eastern University, 2005

  5. Me, myself, and nature: living with dementia and connecting with the

    Greening dementia - a literature review of the benefits and barriers facing individuals living with dementia in accessing the natural environment and local green space. Natural England. ... A systematic mixed studies review. Dementia, 19(3), 553-564. 10.1177/1471301218777444. Crossref.

  6. Fostering the Resilience of People With Dementia: A Narrative

    Background: Resilience is a process through which people use resources to adapt to adversity. Interventions aiming to support resilience in people with dementia have been developed. However, the optimal content, structure and impact of these interventions is unclear. This literature review explores the factors through which interventions foster resilience in people with dementia and examines ...

  7. Alzheimerâ•Žs Dementia Care: Impact on Family Caregivers

    Section 1: foundation of the study and literature review . Introduction . Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia among people over 60 and about 60% to 70% of all dementia cases are due to Alzheimer's (Esandi, Nolan, Alfaro, & Canga-Armayor, 2018). Different types of dementia are dementia with Lewy

  8. Literature review: technological interventions and their impact on

    Consequently, this review suggests a more suitable definition, in the context of this literature review, would be 'A technological solution that intends to improve the quality of life for people with dementia or their caregivers, either through maintaining or improving functional capabilities, facilitating improved self-esteem or sense of ...

  9. PDF Literature Review of Dementia

    The rapid literature review focused on summarising the best available evidence on AHP-led interventions for people with dementia; these comprised systematic reviews and evidence-based guidelines, supplemented with searches for pivotal primary literature, for example randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and economic evaluations.

  10. Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature

    This was done in two stages to enable an up-to-date review of the literature following our initial scoping review of language, dementia and stigma (see Putland and Brookes, 2024). Through pilot testing using Scopus, we selected the search terms shown in Figure 1 , which were devised to maximize the heterogeneity of the results, thus spanning ...

  11. PDF Nurses' perceptions towards delivering care for patients with dementia

    2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 2.1. Dementia disease Dementia is a decline of intellectual function in a medical term c alled the decline of cognition. The intellectual function has several components and the mos t important among them is memory; therefore, people define this disease as ^memory loss _. (Vijay Chandra 2012).

  12. Pain assessment for people with dementia: a systematic review of

    pain in patients with dementia in an acute care setting. A key aspect of this work is to identify existing assessment tools with validation data pertaining to the treatment of people with dementia. This meta-review presents a thor-ough synthesis of current systematic review literature con-cerning the psychometric properties and clinical utility of

  13. PDF Music Therapy for Patients With Dementia: Evidence Informed ...

    The review of research literature focuses on the effects of music therapy for patients with dementia, and whether or not this is an effective non-pharmacologic intervention that can be implemented into the care of patients with dementia, rather than using standard pharmacologic interventions. The literature review conducted for this thesis was ...

  14. PDF Women and Dementia: All But Forgotten? A literature review

    Dementia is an issue that disproportionately affects women. Of the estimated 800,000 people with dementia in the UK, two-thirds are women (Alzheimers Society, 2014), three-quarters of family carers for people with dementia are women (Lindsay and Anderson, 2004), and it is mostly women who deliver paid care (Hussein and Manthorpe, 2012).

  15. PDF African American Dementia Caregivers' Information Needs and Information

    contained in this dissertation. Literature Review Alzheimer's disease and related dementias along with the systemic bias experienced by African Americans raise the burden of dementia caregivers compared to caregivers of other ethnic groups (Rote et al., 2019). Informal dementia care is more common among African

  16. Effects of Music Therapy on Individuals with Dementia: An ...

    2017 were included for the review (n=15). The literature indicates the use of music therapy as an adjuvant therapy for the treatment of dementia in older adults may be beneficial in decreasing symptoms of aggression, anxiety, agitation and depression. Music therapy is used in varying settings, but more specifically in long term care facilities.

  17. Music and Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Literature Review

    The article by Janata24 was found via examination of pre-viously published literature reviews and met the criteria for in-clusion in this report. Of these, only 9 satis ed the above inclusion. fi. criteria requirements for examining the effects of music therapy on older nursing home residents with dementia (Figure25).

  18. Enhancing Nurses' Assessment of Pain Management in Dementia Patients

    educational foundation geared towards assessment and management of pain in the. dementia patient will serve to enhance the quality of care delivered to this population. Chronic pain effects are a great contributor to the morbidity, mortality, and. disability of millions of people (Bernhofer & Sorrell, 2012).

  19. PDF Pain Assessment and Management for People with Dementia in Long-Term

    Literature Review: Dementia and Pain in Long-Term Care For older adults, dementia is a contributing factor leading to admission to LTC (Halonen et al., 2019). Consequently, cognitive impairment is prevalent in LTC (Bjork et al., 2016; Burfield et al., 2012; Kaasalainen et al., 2007; Nakashima, et al., 2019). In addition to cognitive impairment,

  20. 55 Dementia Dissertation Topics And Ideas

    55 Dementia Dissertation Topics. Published by Owen Ingram at January 2nd, 2023 , Revised On August 16, 2023. The term dementia refers to a collection of symptoms and disorders, rather than a single disease. As a result, dementia has a wide range of dissertation topics. Finding a dissertation subject related to dementia sufferers might be ...

  21. The use of music in dementia care: A literature study

    3 Literature Review Literature reviews are fundamental previous studies available. A search of the literature was done for this thesis reference, which contributed to a greater understanding and critical thinking of the topic. Data of this study was collected from scientific sources both manually from books and

  22. Sample Dissertation

    Alzheimer s Association, AA (2013) released a report that an alarming rate of about 1in 3 elderly die from dementia. In the USA, Alzheimer s disease emerged as the 6th disease leads to death. With rates increasing significantly with age, dementia affects 5% of people aged 65 or older and 20-40% of the over 85s.

  23. PDF Welcome to White Rose eTheses Online

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  24. Dementia Nursing Dissertation Topics (26 Examples) For Your Research

    List of Dementia nursing dissertation topics. A literature review on the methods that can be applied for detecting dementia in the early stages. Studying the importance of tracking behavioural and psychological changes for diagnosing dementia in the early stages. Comparing the cognitive tests for detecting mild cognitive disorders ...

  25. Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92

    She was 92. A spokesman for her publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, confirmed the death, at a nursing home. Ms. Munro's health had declined since at least 2009, when she said she'd had ...