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New Advances in Dementia Care

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Aging".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 9414

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Angela Y. M. Leung

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1. WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
2. Centre for Gerontological Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Interests: long-term care; gerontechnology; health literacy; health promotion; gerontology; aging

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Dementia affects millions of people around the world, including both people with dementia as well as their families and caregivers. It is important to develop low-cost, culturally and contextually appropriate and effective actions to prevent, delay or manage dementia. Scientists and practitioners of different disciplines are working together to offer the best solutions in dementia care. We welcome manuscripts from all disciplines that focus on the delivery of care for people with dementia, family caregivers, and formal caregivers (i.e., professionals who offer dementia care). Studies showing clinical trials or pilot tests of innovative dementia care in community or long-term care settings, developmental process or implementation of dementia care interventions, and feedback from stakeholders are most welcome. The use of technology in dementia care can be a highlight. Impacts of dementia care on people’s psychosocial or physical health, economical contribution to society, sustainability in health care systems and manpower issues could also be the focus of the submitted manuscripts.

Prof. Dr. Angela Y. M. Leung
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • dementia care
  • caregiver
  • technology
  • family
  • health care professionals

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The Influence of Everyday Acoustic Environments on the Challenging Behavior in Dementia: A Participatory Observation Study in Nursing Homes
by Arezoo Talebzadeh, Ine Decoutere, Tara Vander Mynsbrugge, Dick Botteldooren, Paul Devos, Francesco Aletta, Dominique Van de Velde and Patricia De Vriendt
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 4191; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054191 - 26 Feb 2023
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Challenging behavior (CB) is a group of behaviors, reactions and symptoms due to dementia, which can be challenging for the caregivers. The study aims to research the influence of acoustics on CB in people with dementia (PwD). An ethnographic method was used to [...] Read more.
Challenging behavior (CB) is a group of behaviors, reactions and symptoms due to dementia, which can be challenging for the caregivers. The study aims to research the influence of acoustics on CB in people with dementia (PwD). An ethnographic method was used to study the daily life of PwD in their nursing homes with a specific focus on how people react to everyday environmental sounds. Thirty-five residents were included in the sample based on purposeful, homogeneous group characteristics and sampling. Empirical data were collected using 24/7 participatory observations. The collected data were analyzed using a phenomenological–hermeneutical method: a naïve understanding, a structural analysis and a comprehensive understanding. The result shows that the onset of CB depends on whether the resident feels safe and is triggered by an excess or lack of stimuli. The excess or shortage of stimuli and whether and when it affects a person is personal. It depends on various factors, the person’s state and the time of day, the nature of the stimuli, familiarity, or strangeness is also a determining factor for the onset and progression of CB. The results can form an essential basis for developing soundscapes to make the PwD feel safe and reduce CB. Full article
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Meaning Making as a Lifebuoy in Dementia Caregiving: Predicting Depression from a Generation Perspective Using a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
by Vivian Weiqun Lou, Clio Yuen Man Cheng, Doris Sau Fung Yu, Daniel Fu Keung Wong, Daniel W. L. Lai, Alice Ming Lin Chong, Shuangzhou Chen and Kee Lee Chou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15711; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315711 - 25 Nov 2022
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Depressive symptomatology is associated with caregiver burden and poor health outcomes among dementia caregivers. Scholars called for a paradigm shift to focus on positive aspects of caregiving, in particular, meaning making during the caregiving journey. This study draws on the meaning making model [...] Read more.
Depressive symptomatology is associated with caregiver burden and poor health outcomes among dementia caregivers. Scholars called for a paradigm shift to focus on positive aspects of caregiving, in particular, meaning making during the caregiving journey. This study draws on the meaning making model and a generation perspective to predict depression among dementia caregivers from two generations, including Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 and Generation X who were born between 1965 and 1980, using a configuration approach. Data was collected in a two-wave longitudinal design, from December 2019 to March 2021 in Hong Kong. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis resulted in six configurations with an overall solution consistency and overall solution coverage of 0.867 and 0.488, respectively. These configurations consist of a different combination of conditions that predict high depressive symptomatology among dementia caregivers in two generations. Specifically, generation is related to five out of six configurations. This study is the first to predict depression among dementia caregivers using a meaning making model from a generation perspective. It advances the understanding of factors contributing to high depressive symptomatology among dementia caregivers from two generations, thus contributing to the future development of generation-responsive assessments, interventions, and policies. Full article
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The Development of an Evidence-Based Telephone-Coached Bibliotherapy Protocol for Improving Dementia Caregiving Appraisal
by Shanshan Wang, Daphne Sze Ki Cheung, Daniel Bressington, Yan Li and Angela Yee Man Leung
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(14), 8731; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148731 - 18 Jul 2022
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Caregiving appraisal is the caregivers’ cognitive evaluation of caregiving stressors. It determines the caregiving outcomes and caregiver health. Dementia caregivers have shown relatively negative caregiving appraisals. However, there is a lack of interventions to improve caregiving appraisal. This study describes the multi-phase process [...] Read more.
Caregiving appraisal is the caregivers’ cognitive evaluation of caregiving stressors. It determines the caregiving outcomes and caregiver health. Dementia caregivers have shown relatively negative caregiving appraisals. However, there is a lack of interventions to improve caregiving appraisal. This study describes the multi-phase process of developing and validating an evidence-based bibliotherapy protocol for improving the caregiving appraisal of informal caregivers of people with dementia. Two phases were included in the development: In Phase 1, a series of reviews of theory and evidence were conducted to identify the theoretical underpinnings, the core components, the dosage, and the mode of delivery of evidence-based bibliotherapy. In Phase 2, focus groups consisting of an expert panel of 16 clinicians and academics were used to validate the intervention protocol. Evidence synthesis was used in Phase 1 to formulate a draft intervention protocol. Content analysis was used in Phase 2 to work out the principles to revise the intervention protocol. The validated evidence-based bibliotherapy protocol included eight weekly sessions, and each session targeted improving one aspect of the essential factors that influence caregiving appraisal. This study provided a culturally sensitive and contextually appropriate evidence-based bibliotherapy protocol ready to be tested in a clinical trial. Full article
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