None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the study is to determine if a multicomponent support program coordinated by a mentor nurse is efficient in alleviating BPSD. The hypothesis is (1) that there are various kinds of triggering factors for BPSD and treatment solututions may be found by supporting personnel systematically and multiprofessionally to understand those triggering factors and (2) that care provided in these grounds alleviates BPSD
Interventions
Intervention duration: 14 months. The staff in the intervention wards is supported by the mentor nurse and consulting geriatrician to find the underlying multiple interacting causes of each resident’s behaviour, and to provide individually tailored, comprehensive and multi-component intervention. The intervention is tailored on basis on care wards. Mentor nurse and geriatrician are available on daily basis but actual freqencies and times are based on needs of wards. Mentoring takes place on a on
Intervention duration: 14 months. The staff in the intervention wards is supported by the mentor nurse and consulting geriatrician to find the underlying multiple interacting causes of each resident’s behaviour, and to provide individually tailored, comprehensive and multi-component intervention. The intervention is tailored on basis on care wards. Mentor nurse and geriatrician are available on daily basis but actual freqencies and times are based on needs of wards. Mentoring takes place on a one to one basis and in group meetings. Tailoring is the very important principle of intervention
Sponsors
The Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to 100 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Resident with dementia (with specific etiological diagnosis) and with BPSD
Exclusion criteria
Resident is entered to terminal care or is planned to be transferred to another care unit or home
Outcome results
None listed