The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers
Objectives: to describe the views of healthcare workers on the facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting. Design: thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. Setting: all participants were interviewed in their place of work. Participants: sixteen healthcare wo...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Summary: | Objectives: to describe the views of healthcare workers on the facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting.
Design: thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews.
Setting: all participants were interviewed in their place of work.
Participants: sixteen healthcare workers whose daily work involves interacting with people with dementia.
Results: four overarching categories of themes were identified from the interviews that impact on communication: the attributes of a care worker, communication strategies used, organisational factors and the physical characteristics of the care environment.
Conclusion: many strategies used by healthcare workers to facilitate communication have not yet been studied in the research literature. Participants’ views on training should be incorporated into future dementia training programmes. |
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