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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| author | Stanyon,, Miriam Ruth Griffiths, Amanda Thomas,, Shirley A. Gordon,, Adam Lee |
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| description | 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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| spelling | nottingham-316542020-05-04T20:04:48Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31654/ The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers Stanyon,, Miriam Ruth Griffiths, Amanda Thomas,, Shirley A. Gordon,, Adam Lee 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. Oxford University Press 2016-01 Article PeerReviewed Stanyon,, Miriam Ruth, Griffiths, Amanda, Thomas,, Shirley A. and Gordon,, Adam Lee (2016) The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers. Age and Ageing, 45 (1). pp. 164-170. ISSN 0002-0729 dementia communication thematic analysis care workers care homes older people http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/164.full doi:10.1093/ageing/afv161 doi:10.1093/ageing/afv161 |
| spellingShingle | dementia communication thematic analysis care workers care homes older people Stanyon,, Miriam Ruth Griffiths, Amanda Thomas,, Shirley A. Gordon,, Adam Lee The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title | The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title_full | The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title_fullStr | The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title_full_unstemmed | The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title_short | The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| title_sort | facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers |
| topic | dementia communication thematic analysis care workers care homes older people |
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