None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
LEAP for Life is a training package for packaged community care staff which aims to improve engagement of clients by providing more individualised conversation and activities. This single arm trial will follow staff and their clients for 18 months, 6 months before the training begins, and across 12 months of training. Staff will be trained on how to incorporate engagement strategies and activities into care plans, and how to deliver these strategies and activities into practice. They will be supported by a change champion over 12 months.
Interventions
LEAP for Life will train case managers or coordinators over 3 hours on incorporating individualized activities into care plans. Care workers will be trained on how to engage clients and implement individualised activities. Skills will include improved conversation and listening skills, reminiscence, humour and play, Montessori, music and planning for special events. Care workers will receive 9 hours of training in 4 sessions delivered quarterly.In addition, a “change champion” with lifestyle,
LEAP for Life will train case managers or coordinators over 3 hours on incorporating individualized activities into care plans. Care workers will be trained on how to engage clients and implement individualised activities. Skills will include improved conversation and listening skills, reminiscence, humour and play, Montessori, music and planning for special events. Care workers will receive 9 hours of training in 4 sessions delivered quarterly.In addition, a “change champion” with lifestyle, occupational or diversional therapy experience, will be appointed within each site to assist case managers and care workers in preparing activities, and encourage incorporation of the newly learned skills into usual care. This change champion, will be also be available to consult with case managers on care planning, and to work a buddy shift with care workers.
Sponsors
Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
- Clients receiving services from the five partner sites in New South Wales (Baptist Community Services - Liverpool; Baptist Community Services - Central Coast; Australian Nursing Home Foundation; Multicultural Community Care Service; and the Whiddon Group - Glenfield. - Clients receiving community aged care packages: CACP, EACH or EACH-D.
Exclusion criteria
Clients will be ineligible if they are; - foreshadowed to stop accessing the service, - acutely unwell, - under public guardianship with no person responsible to consent on their behalf.
Outcome results
None listed