Effects of Dementia Care Mapping on well‐being and quality of life of older people with intellectual disability: A quasi‐experimental study

Autor: Feija D. Schaap, Evelyn Finnema, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Roy E. Stewart, Geke J. Dijkstra
Přispěvatelé: Public Health Research (PHR), Health Psychology Research (HPR)
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(4), 849-860. Wiley
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
ISSN: 1468-3148
1360-2322
DOI: 10.1111/jar.12576
Popis: BACKGROUND: The ageing of people with intellectual disability, accompanied with consequences like dementia, challenges intellectual disability-care staff and creates a need for supporting methods, with Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) as a promising possibility. This study examined the effect of DCM on the quality of life of older people with intellectual disability.METHODS: We performed a quasi-experimental study in 23 group homes for older people with intellectual disability in the Netherlands, comparing DCM (n = 113) with care-as-usual (CAU; n = 111). Using three measures, we assessed the staff-reported quality of life of older people with intellectual disability.RESULTS: DCM achieved no significantly better or worse quality of life than CAU. Effect sizes varied from 0.01 to -0.22. Adjustments for covariates and restriction of analyses to people with dementia yielded similar results.CONCLUSION: The finding that DCM does not increase quality of life of older people with intellectual disability contradicts previous findings and deserves further study.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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