How do care partners overcome the challenges associated with falls of community-dwelling older people with dementia? A qualitative study.

Background And Objectives: Previous studies have found that falls among community-dwelling older people with dementia negatively impact the health and well-being of their relative/friend care partners. Limited studies have explored the challenges care partners experience because of older people's falls (including fall incidents and fall risks). We sought to investigate care partners' experiences of these challenges and how care partners responded.

Validation and expansion of a behavioral framework for dementia care partner resilience (CP-R).

Background And Objectives: Resilience - the ability to bounce back after a stressor - is a core component of successful family caregiving for people living with dementia. In this manuscript, we describe the preliminary empirical validation of a new behavioral framework developed from existing literature for assessing care partner resilience, CP-R, and propose its potential value for future research and clinical care.

Methods: We selected 27 dementia care partners who reported significant challenges prompted by a recent health crisis of their care recipient from three local university-affiliated hospitals in the United States.

Building a dementia-capable nursing workforce.

Background: Undergraduate nursing students will play a pivotal role in caring for the rising numbers of older adults and people living with dementia (PLWD). However, many do not receive training in geriatrics or dementia and do not enter this field post-graduation, contributing to the workforce shortage.

Objective: We aimed to capture students' interest and intention to work with PLWD, their suggestions about training, and to evaluate interest in a new elective long-term care (LTC) externship.

Developing a New Behavioral Framework for Dementia Care Partner Resilience: A Mixed Research Synthesis.

Background And Objectives: Caring for a person living with dementia requires resilience, the capacity to recover and grow from challenging situations. Despite the increasing interest in assessing and promoting resilience for dementia care partners, behaviors that indicate this attribute are not well known. The aim of this study was to synthesize the literature to identify resilience-related behaviors and develop a new framework for future validation and intervention research.

Developing a Unifying Model of Resilience in Dementia Caregiving: A Scoping Review and Content Analysis.

Resilience, a capacity for addressing, recovering, and growing from challenging situations, can mitigate dementia care partners' burden. Three main theoretical models predominate, treating resilience variably as an outcome, a trait, or a process. In this scoping review, we examine how these three models inform definitions and measures of resilience in dementia care partners to understand whether there is a single coherent model and identify the gaps in conceptualizing and operationalizing resilience.

Potentially preventable hospitalizations in dementia: family caregiver experiences.

Background: Health crises in persons living with dementia challenge their caregivers to make pivotal decisions, often under pressure, and to act in new ways on behalf of their care recipient. Disruption of everyday routines and heightened stress are familiar consequences of these events. Hospitalization for acute illness or injury is a familiar health crisis in dementia.