A Qualitative Study Exploring Professional Perspectives of a Challenging Rehabilitation Environment for Geriatric Rehabilitation.

There is a trend towards the formalization of the rehabilitation process for older rehabilitants in a Challenging Rehabilitation Environment (CRE). This concept involves the comprehensive organization of care, support, and environment on rehabilitation wards. So far, literature on the principles of the CRE is scarce.

A Qualitative Study Exploring Rehabilitant and Informal Caregiver Perspectives of a Challenging Rehabilitation Environment for Geriatric Rehabilitation.

There is a trend toward formalization of the rehabilitation process for older rehabilitants in a Challenging Rehabilitation Environment (CRE). This concept involves the comprehensive organization of care, support, and environment in rehabilitation wards. So far, literature about the principles of CRE is scarce.

Com-mens: a home-based logopaedic intervention program for communication problems between people with dementia and their caregivers - a single-group mixed-methods pilot study.

Background: Communication difficulties are common in people with dementia, and often present from an early stage. However, direct treatment options for people with dementia that positively influence their daily communication are scarce.

Aims: To evaluate the potential impact and feasibility of a personalized logopaedic intervention.

Clinimetric Evaluation of the Experienced Communication in Dementia Questionnaire.

Background And Objectives: Tools to measure self-perceived communication between persons with early-stage dementia and their caregivers are lacking. Therefore, we developed a questionnaire for Experienced Communication in Dementia (ECD) with a patient version (ECD-P) and a caregiver version (ECD-C), which contains items on (a) caregiver competence, (b) social communication, (c) communication difficulties, and (d) experienced emotions. This article describes the feasibility and clinimetric evaluation of this instrument.

Development of the Experienced Communication in Dementia Questionnaire: A Qualitative Study.

Communication problems with their caregivers are common in people with dementia. Although interventions for improvement of communication are being developed, a tool to measure how participants experience their communication is lacking. The objective of this article is to describe the development of a questionnaire that measures the "experienced communication" of persons with dementia (ECD-P) as well as of their caregivers (ECD-C).

Living on borrowed time: experiences in palliative care.

Objective: To gain insight into the experiences of a palliative care patient and her husband who were living on borrowed time.

Methods: A qualitative single case design was used. Systematic content analysis of the interview data, obtained in an in-depth semi-structured interview, from the husband and wife was conducted to extract themes relating to living on borrowed time.