A Critical Study on the Impact of Dementia on Older People Undergoing Treatment in Care Homes

Maximum healthcare needs for older people are complex due to diseases, comorbidities, or disabilities, including long-term or mental and physical health issues. Various residential and nursing care homes help care for older people, especially those with special medical needs. Among these special medical needs, dementia is one medical condition requiring exceptional care for the affected to prevent adverse effects of the situation they usually encounter. Dementia is a health condition that involves impairments to memory and thinking due to any injury or disease-causing damage to the brain. Older people suffer from different diseases, which cause cognitive disability and long-term ailments and directly affect patients' quality of life. Given the cognitive impairment dementia causes to older people, it is difficult for the care providers to accurately assess the impact on every individual to formulate a person-centered care plan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, due to administrative restrictions on social distancing to prevent transmission of this disease, caregivers and elderly persons feel tremendous mental stress, further aggravating their problems because of loneliness. Thus, there is a requirement to do the study and analyze the effects on older people to provide quality and person-centered care. Due to the above factors as significant challenges in the current context, there is an ardent need for the results of variegated studies besides a thorough analysis of available literature analyzed to provide proper evidence to the care providers. It will pave the way for understanding the actual impact of the condition in its natural context. In this regard, a literature review and the results of the studies are discussed. This research brings into the limelight all those factors in the context of previous studies and data analysis of the current situation.