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Supporting Persons With Dementia In Communicating Their Care Preferences, Vanessa L. Burshnic
Supporting Persons With Dementia In Communicating Their Care Preferences, Vanessa L. Burshnic
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Person-centered care is important to the quality of life of nursing home residents with dementia. Preference assessments enable person-centered care by documenting residents’ preferred activities. Residents with severe dementia are less likely to have a role in preference assessment due to communication challenges associated with the disease. External supports (visual and text cues) are effective in improving the communication of residents with dementia, but these cues are often not used in practice. Standard assessment (verbal questioning) places greater demands on short-term memory and attention, which are known deficits in dementia.
Applying a within-subjects design, this study evaluated two conditions (standard …