In constant search of the good: a qualitative study into insiders' perspectives on living well with dementia.

Introduction: The new concept of 'living well with dementia' is currently gaining traction in practice, policy, and research. However, people with dementia and their carers' own understanding of this concept has not received much scholarly attention. This is because empirical studies into living well with dementia are predominantly quantitative; there are only a few qualitative studies on this topic.

Supporting Resilience of Older Adults with Cognitive Decline Requires a Multi-Level System Approach.

The concept of resilience, i.e., the capacity of a system to bounce back after a stressor, is gaining interest across many fields of science, policy, and practice.

Hospital Care for Frail Elderly Adults: From Specialized Geriatric Units to Hospital-Wide Interventions.

Much of the acute care provided in hospitals is for elderly people. Frailty is a common clinical condition among these patients. Frail patients are vulnerable to undergoing adverse events, to developing geriatric syndromes and to experiencing functional decline during or due to hospitalization.

Development and validation of the Geriatric In-hospital Nursing Care Questionnaire.

Objectives: To develop a questionnaire, the Geriatric In-hospital Nursing Care Questionnaire (GerINCQ), to measure, in an integrated way, the care that older adults receive in the hospital and nurses' attitudes toward and perceptions about caring for older adults.

Design: Questionnaire development.

Setting: Twelve university and teaching hospitals.

Uniform presentation of process evaluation results facilitates the evaluation of complex interventions: development of a graph.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Process evaluation is a highly essential element for the increasing number of studies regarding multi-component interventions. Yet, researchers are challenged to collect and present appropriate process outcomes in such way that it is easy and valuable to be used by other researchers and policy makers in interpreting and comparing intervention effects because of the absence of standards for conducting and publishing process evaluation. This article describes the development of a method to concisely summarize the results of process evaluations of complex multi-component interventions.

The CareWell in Hospital program to improve the quality of care for frail elderly inpatients: results of a before-after study with focus on surgical patients.

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate implementation of an innovative intervention designed to prevent complications and stimulate early rehabilitation among frail elderly inpatients.

Methods: The program was implemented in April 2011. A mixed-methods process evaluation and before-after study were performed.

The CareWell in Hospital questionnaire: a measure of frail elderly inpatient experiences with individualized and integrated hospital care.

Given our aging society with an increasing number of frail elderly patients, we must provide integrated care tailored to their complex needs regarding health and well-being. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire designed to assess how frail hospitalized elderly patients experience several important aspects of individualized and integrated care. An 8-item questionnaire was developed using input from a panel representing the target group and administered to patients age ≥70 years from surgical, medical, and geriatric departments to measure data characteristics, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness.

Effects of hospital-wide interventions to improve care for frail older inpatients: a systematic review.

Background: Although it is widely recognised that frail older persons need adaptation of healthcare services, it is unclear how hospital care in general can best be tailored to their frailty.

Objective: To systematically review the evidence for hospital-wide interventions for older patients.

Methods: PubMed, Cochrane CENTRAL, Cinahl and reference lists of included articles (1980-2009) were searched.