Perception of Home Healthcare Nurses toward Persons with Dementia

Zainab Toteh Osakwe; Izuagie Ikhapoh; Bhavleen Kaur Arora; Rose Saint Fleur-Calixte

doi:10.1177/1084822320963086

Perception of Home Healthcare Nurses toward Persons with Dementia

Zainab Toteh Osakwe
, Izuagie Ikhapoh
, Bhavleen Kaur Arora
, Rose Saint Fleur-Calixte

School of Public Health

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to describe the perception of home healthcare (HHC) nurses toward persons with dementia (PWD). Using a cross-sectional survey design, data were collected from 225 registered nurses at 11 home care agencies across 7 states in the U.S. A web based modified Approaches to Dementia (ADQ) was used to assess nurses’ perception of person-centeredness. Most of the respondents were female (91.6%). Overall, greater years of experience as a registered nurse and age (<40 years) were associated with higher mean person-centeredness scores. Efforts to improve patient-centered dementia care in the HHC setting may need to be tailored to unique groups of HHC nurses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	65-71
Number of pages	7
Journal	Home Health Care Management and Practice
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1084822320963086
State	Published - May 2021

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
home care nurses
home healthcare
person-centered dementia care
person-centeredness

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