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A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia
Few studies have focused on developing a better understanding of the needs of patients with moderate-stage dementia. This study aimed to explore the needs of people living with moderate dementia and receiving home-care services from a local mental hospital. The study adopted a descriptive qualitativ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430645/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501495 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178901 |
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author | Yeh, Tzu-Pei Chen, Hsing-Chia Ma, Wei-Fen |
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description | Few studies have focused on developing a better understanding of the needs of patients with moderate-stage dementia. This study aimed to explore the needs of people living with moderate dementia and receiving home-care services from a local mental hospital. The study adopted a descriptive qualitative approach with purposive sampling to recruit patients with moderate dementia and receiving home-care services. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews and content analysis was used to interpret the experiences in the dialogue data. The results showed that the needs of people living with moderate dementia receiving home-care services contained four themes: the demand for company and care, the wish to recall familiar images, the need of reaffirming life purpose and value through reflection and reminiscence, and the desire for making autonomous end-of-life decisions. In addition to daily care, people living with moderate dementia crave companionship, expect meaningful exchanges of experiences to share their life, and have demands to have a voice in going through the final stage of life. The participants tended to focus more on issues related to the connections between living and dying. The results provide caregivers and home-care service providers with some insights into offering better care for people living with moderate dementia. |
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spelling | pubmed-84306452021-09-11 A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia Yeh, Tzu-Pei Chen, Hsing-Chia Ma, Wei-Fen Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Few studies have focused on developing a better understanding of the needs of patients with moderate-stage dementia. This study aimed to explore the needs of people living with moderate dementia and receiving home-care services from a local mental hospital. The study adopted a descriptive qualitative approach with purposive sampling to recruit patients with moderate dementia and receiving home-care services. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews and content analysis was used to interpret the experiences in the dialogue data. The results showed that the needs of people living with moderate dementia receiving home-care services contained four themes: the demand for company and care, the wish to recall familiar images, the need of reaffirming life purpose and value through reflection and reminiscence, and the desire for making autonomous end-of-life decisions. In addition to daily care, people living with moderate dementia crave companionship, expect meaningful exchanges of experiences to share their life, and have demands to have a voice in going through the final stage of life. The participants tended to focus more on issues related to the connections between living and dying. The results provide caregivers and home-care service providers with some insights into offering better care for people living with moderate dementia. MDPI 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8430645/ /pubmed/34501495 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178901 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yeh, Tzu-Pei Chen, Hsing-Chia Ma, Wei-Fen A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title | A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title_full | A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title_fullStr | A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title_short | A Qualitative Exploration of the Needs of Community-Dwelling Patients Living with Moderate Dementia |
title_sort | qualitative exploration of the needs of community-dwelling patients living with moderate dementia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430645/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501495 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178901 |
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