Browsing Residential Homes by Subject "Well being and Health (WHELD) intervention"
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Impact of person-centred care training and person-centred activities on quality of life, agitation, and antipsychotic use in people with dementia living in nursing homes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
(2018-02-06)Agitation is a common, challenging symptom affecting large numbers of people with dementia and impacting on quality of life (QoL). There is an urgent need for evidence-based, cost-effective psychosocial interventions to ... -
Improving mental health and reducing antipsychotic use in people with dementia in care homes: the WHELD research programme including two RCTs
(2020-07)Background The effective management of agitation and other neuropsychiatric and behavioural symptoms in people with dementia is a major challenge, particularly in care home settings, where dementia severity is higher and ... -
Improving the quality of life of care home residents with dementia: Cost-effectiveness of an optimized intervention for residents with clinically significant agitation in dementia
(2019-02)The aim was to examine whether an optimized intervention is a more cost-effective option than treatment as usual (TAU) for improving agitation and quality of life in nursing home residents with clinically significant ... -
The WHELD programme: showing the benefits
(2019-01)The WHELD study demonstrates that with support home care teams can incorporate into practice a focused approach to person centred care, augmented with other therapeutic elements of personalised social activities and ...
