Journal article
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