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Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study

BACKGROUND: Caring for people with dementia (PwD) is often challenging for caregiving relatives. Respite care (RC) is a commonly used short-term inpatient service. The provision of RC can serve as a link between home care and institutional care and can help to stabilize the care provided at home. Du...

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Autores principales: Heinrich, Steffen, Horstmannshoff, Caren, Holle, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01728-z
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description BACKGROUND: Caring for people with dementia (PwD) is often challenging for caregiving relatives. Respite care (RC) is a commonly used short-term inpatient service. The provision of RC can serve as a link between home care and institutional care and can help to stabilize the care provided at home. During RC, the everyday functional skills of PwD can be improved or stabilized through systematic mobility training. However, no specific mobility programme exists for this setting. The aim of the DESKK study was to develop and test a mobility training programme for PwD in the RC setting in Germany. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pilot study was conducted in a specialized RC centre for PwD. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analysed using a mixed methods design. RESULTS: The DESKK mobility programme may be introduced in the RC setting depending on the required time and professional resources. The mobility programme had a high acceptance rate among the staff involved. Ongoing documentation of the mobility exercises were challenging. During their stay (2–4 weeks), the physical function level of the included PwD (n = 20) increased regarding leg strength, gross motor coordination, fine coordination of the fingers and hand strength. CONCLUSIONS: The DESKK mobility programme showed a high acceptance rate by the staff and was usable in daily care routine for the most part. These aspects indicate that the programme has the potential to be successfully implemented in the RC setting. The DESKK concept is described in the form of a practice-friendly website to facilitate its use in clinical practice after its successful evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-74874722020-09-15 Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study Heinrich, Steffen Horstmannshoff, Caren Holle, Bernhard BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Caring for people with dementia (PwD) is often challenging for caregiving relatives. Respite care (RC) is a commonly used short-term inpatient service. The provision of RC can serve as a link between home care and institutional care and can help to stabilize the care provided at home. During RC, the everyday functional skills of PwD can be improved or stabilized through systematic mobility training. However, no specific mobility programme exists for this setting. The aim of the DESKK study was to develop and test a mobility training programme for PwD in the RC setting in Germany. METHODS: A quasi-experimental pilot study was conducted in a specialized RC centre for PwD. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analysed using a mixed methods design. RESULTS: The DESKK mobility programme may be introduced in the RC setting depending on the required time and professional resources. The mobility programme had a high acceptance rate among the staff involved. Ongoing documentation of the mobility exercises were challenging. During their stay (2–4 weeks), the physical function level of the included PwD (n = 20) increased regarding leg strength, gross motor coordination, fine coordination of the fingers and hand strength. CONCLUSIONS: The DESKK mobility programme showed a high acceptance rate by the staff and was usable in daily care routine for the most part. These aspects indicate that the programme has the potential to be successfully implemented in the RC setting. The DESKK concept is described in the form of a practice-friendly website to facilitate its use in clinical practice after its successful evaluation. BioMed Central 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7487472/ /pubmed/32894055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01728-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title_full Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title_fullStr Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title_short Feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the DESKK study
title_sort feasibility of a mobility programme for people with dementia in the respite care setting: results of the deskk study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32894055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01728-z
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