Feasibility of a two-part person-centred care initiative for people living with dementia in acute hospitals: A mixed methods study.

Background: The personal profile offers a potentially useful tool to support person-centred care of people living with dementia in hospital. To date, how profiles can be implemented into nurses' work practices is not established.

Objectives: The aim is to establish the feasibility of a Person-Centred Care package, including a personal profile and staff education program to enhance implementation.

Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines for Falls Prevention: Observations of Nursing Activities During the Care of Older People With Cognitive Impairment.

Background: Evidence-based guidelines assist clinicians in practice, but how the guidelines are implemented is less established.

Aim: To describe the nurses' implementation of activities recommended in evidence-based guidelines for falls prevention and care of older people with cognitive impairment.

Methods: Structured observation with a categorical checklist was used.

Caring for the older person with cognitive impairment in hospital: Qualitative analysis of nursing personnel reflections on fall events.

Aims And Objectives: To explore nurse and nursing assistant reflections on the care of older patients with cognitive impairment who have experienced a fall.

Background: While there are evidence-based clinical guidelines for the prevention and management of falls and for the care of older people with cognitive impairment, the falls rates for older people with cognitive impairment are three times as high as those without.

Design: Critical incident technique.