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A qualitative study of nursing assistants' awareness of person-centred approaches to dementia care

Abstract

ABSTRACT Recently, the number of education programmes addressing person-centred approaches to long-term residential dementia care has increased, and nursing assistants (NAs) are often the target audience. The effectiveness of employee education programmes is actively debated, and our objective is to contribute to this discussion by exploring the knowledge NAs acquire through practice. We examined approaches to person-centred care generated …

Authors

HUNTER PV; HADJISTAVROPOULOS T; KAASALAINEN S

Journal

Ageing and Society, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1211–1237

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

July 2016

DOI

10.1017/s0144686x15000276

ISSN

0144-686X