Improving person-centred care in nursing homes through dementia-care mapping: design of a cluster-randomised controlled trial

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The effectiveness and efficiency of nursing-home dementia care are suboptimal: there are high rates of neuropsychiatric symptoms among the residents and work-related stress among the staff. Dementia-care mapping is a person-centred c...

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Main Authors: van de Ven Geertje, Draskovic Irena, Adang Eddy MM, Donders Rogier ART, Post Aukje, Zuidema Sytse U, Koopmans Raymond TCM, Vernooij-Dassen Myrra JFJ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-01-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2318/12/1