Effects of a Dementia-friendly Program

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, AKERSHUS · Jan 29, 2021

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ClinConnect Summary

Study design This study, has a non-equivalent control group design and a historical control Group. The Control group received usual care and the experimental group received usual care plus the dementia-friendly program.

One Group received care after implementing the dementia-friendly hospital program. The study is performed at two medical wards at a large acute-care hospital in Norway. A medical pulmonary ward and a cardiac ward participated.

Data Collection:

Demographic data included age, gender, place of residence (home, adapted housing, institution), and family/relative network, and w...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients ≥75 years
• • acute admission to the cardiac or pulmonary wards.
• • Patient who has given informed written consent, or proxy consent from relatives for patients who lacked cognitive capacity.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Readmitted patients enrolled in a previous hospital stay.
• • Patients who do not have sufficient verbal function or hearing to communicate
• • Patients in a coma or too ill to participate
• • Patients who are isolated
• • Patients who do not wish to participate or relatives who do not want the patient to participate, in the cases where the patient lacked cognitive capacity to consent.