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Inter-professional perspectives of dementia services and care in England: Outcomes of a focus group study (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2014. Many people living with dementia are supported at home using a variety of health and social care services. This paper reports the findings from a focus group study undertaken with staff in community mental health teams to explor... Read More about Inter-professional perspectives of dementia services and care in England: Outcomes of a focus group study.

Associated Factors With Antipsychotic Use in Long-Term Institutional Care in Eight European Countries: Results From the RightTimePlaceCare Study (2014)
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© 2014 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Objectives: To determine factors associated with the antipsychotic (AP) prescription for people with dementia (PwD) recently admitted to institutional long-term care facilities (LT... Read More about Associated Factors With Antipsychotic Use in Long-Term Institutional Care in Eight European Countries: Results From the RightTimePlaceCare Study.

Older persons with dementia at risk for institutionalization in eight European countries: a cross-sectional study on the perceptions of informal caregivers and healthcare professionals (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aims: To explore the perceptions of informal caregivers and healthcare professionals regarding potential reasons for the institutionalization of older persons with dementia in eight European countries. Background: Heal... Read More about Older persons with dementia at risk for institutionalization in eight European countries: a cross-sectional study on the perceptions of informal caregivers and healthcare professionals.

Predicting institutional long-term care admission in dementia: A mixed-methods study of informal caregivers' reports (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Aim: To investigate agreement between: (1) expected reasons and actual reasons for admission of people with dementia according to informal caregivers; (2) scores on measurement instruments prior to admission and the ac... Read More about Predicting institutional long-term care admission in dementia: A mixed-methods study of informal caregivers' reports.

Costs of care for people with dementia just before and after nursing home placement: primary data from eight European countries (2014)
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© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Background: Dementia is the most common cause of functional decline among elderly people and is associated with high costs of national healthcare in European countries. With increasing functional and cogniti... Read More about Costs of care for people with dementia just before and after nursing home placement: primary data from eight European countries.

Translating cognitive and everyday activity deficits into cognitive interventions in mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment (2014)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objective: Mild dementia is marked by deficits in cognition and everyday activities. However, few studies have translated findings from both areas of functioning into effective cognitive rehabilitation. The purpose of... Read More about Translating cognitive and everyday activity deficits into cognitive interventions in mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment.

An examination of assessment arrangements and service use for older people in receipt of care management (2014)
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With anticipated greater demand for formal care services globally, this article examines the sociodemographic and health characteristics of frail older people in receipt of community support. Data were collected from audits of case files of older peo... Read More about An examination of assessment arrangements and service use for older people in receipt of care management.

Deterioration of basic activities of daily living and their impact on quality of life across different cognitive stages of dementia: A European study (2014)
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Background: Performing basic activities of daily living (ADLs) is one of the major difficulties encountered in dementia, which can have considerable negative impacts on the quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia (PwD). However, the extent to w... Read More about Deterioration of basic activities of daily living and their impact on quality of life across different cognitive stages of dementia: A European study.

People with dementia and carers’ experiences of dementia care and services: Outcomes of a focus group study (2013)
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© 2013, The Author(s) 2013. An ageing population and an associated increase in the prevalence of dementia are of increasing concern in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Recently, the United Kingdom and other European countries implemented national de... Read More about People with dementia and carers’ experiences of dementia care and services: Outcomes of a focus group study.

All things to all people? The provision of outreach by community mental health teams for older people in England: findings from a national survey (2013)
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Objective The objective of this study is to identify the extent of outreach activity community mental health teams (CMHTs) for older people provide to mainstream services in light of the recommendations of the National Dementia Strategy. In particula... Read More about All things to all people? The provision of outreach by community mental health teams for older people in England: findings from a national survey.

Membership and management: structures of inter-professional working in community mental health teams for older people in England (2013)
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ABSTRACT Background: Community mental health services are regarded as the preferred first tier of specialist psychogeriatric support, with integrated multidisciplinary teams believed to offer improved decision-making and greater continuity of care th... Read More about Membership and management: structures of inter-professional working in community mental health teams for older people in England.

The balance of care approach to health and social care planning: Lessons from a systematic literature review (2013)
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The strategic allocation of resources is one the most difficult tasks facing health and social care decision makers, with multiple organisations delivering complex services to heterogeneous populations. The enduring appeal of the balance of care appr... Read More about The balance of care approach to health and social care planning: Lessons from a systematic literature review.