The Experience of Hospitalisation for People Living With Dementia: A Qualitative Exploration of How Context Shapes Experiences.

Introduction: Dementia has become an increasingly pressing issue in healthcare systems, and acute care settings such as hospitals have been shown to be particularly problematic for people living with dementia. People living with dementia are hospitalised at higher rates than those without and often have poor experiences and outcomes of hospitalisation. To support the evolution of hospital systems to better meet the needs of people living with dementia, it is important to consider the relationship between the context of the hospital and the experiences of people living with dementia and their caregivers.

Nursing interventions to improve care of people living with dementia in hospital: A mixed methods systematic review.

Background: There are growing numbers of people living with dementia being admitted to acute care hospitals. Hospitalization for people living with dementia can be difficult and is often associated with negative outcomes. Nurses play a significant role in shaping the hospital experience of people living with dementia, and there have been efforts to design, implement and evaluate interventions to improve nursing care of people living with dementia.

Interventions to Improve the Nursing Care of People with Dementia in Canadian Hospitals: An Environmental Scan.

As the number of people with dementia admitted to hospitals is expected to grow, now is the time to identify methods to improve nursing care of this population. We conducted an environmental scan to identify and describe interventions in Canadian hospitals to improve the nursing care of people with dementia, how they are being evaluated and what issues influence the success of interventions. Methods included a search of published and unpublished literature and key stakeholder interviews.

Shifting Professional Identity Among Indonesian Medical Practitioners During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on medical practitioners' professional identities due to its novelty and intensity. Using constructivist grounded theory, we investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic shifted individuals' identities as medical practitioners in Indonesia, where the pandemic caused high death rates among healthcare workers, particularly medical practitioners. By interviewing 24 medical practitioners and analyzing relevant documents and reports, we developed a grounded theory of professional identity shifts.

Pandemic programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help.

Context: As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful conditions.

Objective: This study investigates the effects of the pandemic on developers' wellbeing and productivity.