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Eine angemessene Diagnostik und erfolgreiche Behandlung vorhandener Sehbeeintrachtigungen bei Men... more Eine angemessene Diagnostik und erfolgreiche Behandlung vorhandener Sehbeeintrachtigungen bei Menschen mit einer Demenzerkrankung gibt es heute noch kaum. Dies mit dramatischen Folgen fur die Betroffenen: Schlechtes Sehen kann zu einer zunehmenden Symptomatik der Demenzerkrankung beitragen, da es die geistigen, korperlichen und sozialen Aktivitaten einschrankt. Weiter ist eine Sehbeeintrachtigung ein haufig vernachIassigter intervenierender Faktor bei der Diagnose einer Demenzerkrankung: Viele Diagnoseinstrumente setzen ein intaktes Sehvermogen voraus.
Current approaches hardly take the person behind the nurse, with his/her attitudes towards aging ... more Current approaches hardly take the person behind the nurse, with his/her attitudes towards aging and dementia, into account as a part of the interaction with the demented person. This gap is filled by the present study conducted in Switzerland. On one hand data are collected concerning the nurses’ attitudes towards people with dementia, by using the German version of the Dementia Attitudes Scale (DAS). On the other hand the relationship between the nurses’ attitudes and their behavior towards people with dementia is studied. This is done by analyzing videotaped interaction sequences with the examination instrument ‘Structural Analysis of Social Behavior’ (SASB). Results show that the nurses’ attitudes towards people with dementia are mostly positive. Furthermore, it was noticed that the more positive the nurses’ attitudes towards dementia were, the more positive was their behavior towards people with dementia as well. Based on these findings the authors are currently developing inte...
Nursing Open, Oct 12, 2018
Currently, about 119,000 persons in Switzerland suffer from some form of dementia (Schweizerische... more Currently, about 119,000 persons in Switzerland suffer from some form of dementia (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014a); 50% of people diagnosed with dementia are still living at home (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014b), and half of them are cared by professional home care services (for instance "Spitex"; Ecoplan, 2013). Home care nurses care for people living at home with various degrees physical and/or mental disabilities. Most of them are mildly to moderately limited in their activities of daily living (Wächter et al., 2015). The situation of a person with dementia in an early or middle stage is very demanding for home care nurses, as affected persons are often aware of their increasing losses in the course of the expected progression of the disease and react with diverse symptoms, such as grief, depression, anxiousness or aggression (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014c). The other half of the persons diagnosed with dementia are living in nursing homes. In contrast to the home care setting, persons living in institutions of long-term care tend to be more limited in their activities of daily living. In the German part of Switzerland, there are nearly 1,300 institutions of long-term care. Either they are integrated facilities, which care, among others, for people with dementia, or they are special care units, which are exclusively for
Eine angemessene Diagnostik und erfolgreiche Behandlung vorhandener Sehbeeintrachtigungen bei Men... more Eine angemessene Diagnostik und erfolgreiche Behandlung vorhandener Sehbeeintrachtigungen bei Menschen mit einer Demenzerkrankung gibt es heute noch kaum. Dies mit dramatischen Folgen fur die Betroffenen: Schlechtes Sehen kann zu einer zunehmenden Symptomatik der Demenzerkrankung beitragen, da es die geistigen, korperlichen und sozialen Aktivitaten einschrankt. Weiter ist eine Sehbeeintrachtigung ein haufig vernachIassigter intervenierender Faktor bei der Diagnose einer Demenzerkrankung: Viele Diagnoseinstrumente setzen ein intaktes Sehvermogen voraus.
Current approaches hardly take the person behind the nurse, with his/her attitudes towards aging ... more Current approaches hardly take the person behind the nurse, with his/her attitudes towards aging and dementia, into account as a part of the interaction with the demented person. This gap is filled by the present study conducted in Switzerland. On one hand data are collected concerning the nurses’ attitudes towards people with dementia, by using the German version of the Dementia Attitudes Scale (DAS). On the other hand the relationship between the nurses’ attitudes and their behavior towards people with dementia is studied. This is done by analyzing videotaped interaction sequences with the examination instrument ‘Structural Analysis of Social Behavior’ (SASB). Results show that the nurses’ attitudes towards people with dementia are mostly positive. Furthermore, it was noticed that the more positive the nurses’ attitudes towards dementia were, the more positive was their behavior towards people with dementia as well. Based on these findings the authors are currently developing inte...
Nursing Open, Oct 12, 2018
Currently, about 119,000 persons in Switzerland suffer from some form of dementia (Schweizerische... more Currently, about 119,000 persons in Switzerland suffer from some form of dementia (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014a); 50% of people diagnosed with dementia are still living at home (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014b), and half of them are cared by professional home care services (for instance "Spitex"; Ecoplan, 2013). Home care nurses care for people living at home with various degrees physical and/or mental disabilities. Most of them are mildly to moderately limited in their activities of daily living (Wächter et al., 2015). The situation of a person with dementia in an early or middle stage is very demanding for home care nurses, as affected persons are often aware of their increasing losses in the course of the expected progression of the disease and react with diverse symptoms, such as grief, depression, anxiousness or aggression (Schweizerische Alzheimervereinigung, 2014c). The other half of the persons diagnosed with dementia are living in nursing homes. In contrast to the home care setting, persons living in institutions of long-term care tend to be more limited in their activities of daily living. In the German part of Switzerland, there are nearly 1,300 institutions of long-term care. Either they are integrated facilities, which care, among others, for people with dementia, or they are special care units, which are exclusively for