Evaluation in Dementia Care (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Innes, Anthea; Mccabe, Louise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative collection sets out the critical role and application of evaluation in identifying and developing good practice in a range of dementia care settings.

The contributors discuss the evaluation of care at different levels and in various settings, particularly long stay care, covering evaluation methods, ethics, use of technology and the user's role in the evaluation process itself. Their contributions on evaluating aspects of dementia care ranging from life story work and environmental considerations to medication and dementia care mapping is a useful basis for the discussion of future challenges in evaluation of dementia care.

Practical and theoretical, this wide-ranging text is essential reading for dementia care practitioners at all levels, as well as students and researchers interested in dementia care practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846425561
• Artikelnr.: 38355862

Autorenporträt

Anthea Innes is Senior Lecturer in Dementia Studies at the University of Stirling. She has written widely on the subject of dementia and is the author of Dementia and Social Inclusion and Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centred Dementia Care, both published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Louise McCabe is Lecturer in Dementia Studies at the University of Stirling.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Part One: Contexts of Evaluating Dementia Care. 1. What is Evaluation? Anthea Innes and Louise McCabe
both at the University of Stirling
UK. 2. Problems in Evaluating Dementia Care. Caroline Cantley
University of Northumbria
UK. 3. Internal versus External Evaluation. Carolyn Lechner
Case Western University
Ohio
USA. 4. The Policy Context For Evaluating Dementia Care. Louise McCabe. Part Two: Evaluating Dementia Care: Practicalities and Reflections. 5. Evaluating Technology For Dementia Care. Alison Bowes
University of Stirling
UK. 6. Evaluating Long Stay Care Settings: The Environment. Helle Wijk
University of Gothenburg
Sweden. 7. Evaluating Long Stay Care Settings: A Study of a Life Review and Life Storybook Project. Faith Gibson
University of Ulster
Ireland
Barbara Haight and Yvonne Michel
both at the Medical University of South Carolina
USA. 8. Evaluating Long Stay Settings: Reflections on the Process with Particular Reference to Dementia Care Mapping. Anthea Innes and Fiona Kelly
both at the University of Stirling
UK. 9. Evaluating Long Stay Interventions: Concealment of Medication. Øyvind Kirkevold
Norwegian Centre for Dementia Research
Norway. 10. Evaluating the Experience of People with Dementia in Decision-Making in Health and Social Care. Jeanne Tyrrell
University of Grenoble
France. Part Three: Future Challenges in Evaluating Dementia Care. 11. Ethics
Evaluation and Dementia. Julie Christie
East Dunbartonshire Council
UK. 12. User Involvement in Evaluations. Charlie Murphy
Coordinator of the Glasgow Access Panel
UK. 13. Evaluation of Dementia Care in Resource-Scarce Settings. Jurate Macijauskiene
Kaunas University of Medicine
Lithuania. 14. Building on the Lessons of Evaluations. Louise McCabe and Anthea Innes. Index.