Understanding Family Resilience in Young-Onset Dementia: A Multiple Case Study.

Aim: Through the lens of family resilience, exploring the experiences of families in adapting to young-onset dementia.

Design: Qualitative multiple case study.

Methods: This study examined the family as a single unit of analysis, focusing on a triad including a person with young-onset dementia, their spouse and their adult child.

Effect of virtual-reality-based education program for managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A randomized controlled trial.

This study aims to evaluate the effect of the virtual-reality-based education program (VR-EduBPSD) for managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Sixty-six family caregivers of people with dementia were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group following a 1:1 ratio. The experimental group received VR-EduBPSD while the control group received analogous paper-based educational materials.

Factors associated with the quality of life of persons with young-onset dementia: A systematic literature review.

This review examines factors associated with quality of life (QoL) in persons with young-onset dementia (YOD). Studies investigating and analysing factors related to QoL in persons with YOD were included. Databases searched included PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, EMBASE, and SCOPUS.

Virtual Reality-Based Education Program for Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Development and Feasibility Test.

This study aims to develop a virtual reality-based education program for managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia for family carers of persons living with dementia and investigate the feasibility for users. The program was developed through literature review, interviews with family carers, surveys, and expert content validity assessment. User feasibility was evaluated quantitatively through a questionnaire on usefulness, ease of use, and satisfaction, and qualitatively through participant interviews.

Non-pharmacological interventions for people living with young-onset dementia and their carers: A scoping review focussing on the support of participants' needs.

Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Young-onset dementia (YOD) refers to a phenomenon in which dementia symptoms appear under age 65. Diagnosing YOD is difficult and its progression is fast. Furthermore, it limits the socio-economic careers of people living with YOD, regardless of their needs.

Development of examination objectives based on nursing competency for the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination: a validity study.

Purpose: This study aimed to develop the examination objectives based on nursing competency of the Korean Nursing Licensing Examination.

Methods: This is a validity study to develop the examination objectives based on nursing competency. Data were collected in December 2021.

Korean Family Caregivers' Experiences With Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Keeping Harmony in Daily Life.

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are symptoms of dementia that family caregivers find difficult to manage. Competence in managing BPSD differs according to individual family caregiver. The current study investigated the competence in managing BPSD, focusing on family caregivers who were recognized as managing them well.

The Competence Scale in Managing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (CS-MBPSD) for family caregivers: Instrument development and cross-sectional validation study.

Background: Families' caring competence plays a key role in caring for the elderly with dementia. In particular, the management of the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia is different from the management of other symptoms of dementia. However, there is no tool for evaluating family caregiver competence for managing the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Family caregiver competence in managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A concept synthesis.

Aim: This study aimed to identify the attributes of "family caregiver competence in managing behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia".

Methods: Six electronic databases were searched for studies published between January 1990 and June 2017 with the key words "dementia", "behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia", "caregiver", "coping (managing)", and "competence". From the final fully reviewed 26 articles, descriptions related to family caregiver's dealing with behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia were extracted first.

Maintenance of Continuity in Older Adulthood: Concept Analysis.

Purpose: This article aims to define the concept of maintenance of continuity in older adulthood (MCOA) and assist nurses to better understand the concept of MCOA.

Methods: The method by Walker and Avant was used for this concept analysis.

Findings: In the literature, MCOA is defined as a psychosocial adaptation strategy by searching for preference and familiarity, making a sense of connection, and creating coherence.

National study of the nutritional status of Korean older adults with dementia who are living in long-term care settings.

Aim: To evaluate the nutritional status of older adults with dementia who were living in long-term care settings.

Methods: As a secondary analysis, this study used the data from the Nationwide Survey on Dementia Care in Korea that was conducted between December 1, 2010, and August 31, 2011, which surveyed 3472 older adults with dementia, aged ≥60 years (mean age: 81.24 years), who were residing in 248 randomly selected long-term care settings in South Korea.

Patient and Caregiver Interplay in Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Family Caregiver's Experience.

The purpose of this study was to identify family caregivers' experiences in managing the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) with particular focus on their interpersonal interactions with patient with dementia. Data were collected through focus-group interviews with 15 family caregivers from three local dementia-support centers located in Seoul. Data were analyzed using content analysis.

A Relationship between Depression and Wandering in Community-Dwelling Elders with Dementia.

Background And Purpose: Wandering is one of the most common behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, and associated with some of the adverse outcomes in dementia, such as getting lost or even death. The etiology of wandering is not yet clearly known. As depression and wandering are both very common among the patients with dementia, this study examined the relationship between the depression and wandering among the community dwelling patients with dementia.

The Association Between the Burden on Formal Caregivers and Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in Korean Elderly in Nursing Homes.

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are sources of psychological distress for caregivers who take care of people with dementia. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between BPSD and the burden on formal caregivers of nursing homes in South Korea. Results showed that the total severity score of BPSD had a statistically significant positive correlation with the total distress score.

Predictors of Agreement With Writing Advance Directives Among Older Korean Adults.

Purpose: To determine the predictors of agreement with writing advance directives (ADs) among older Korean adults.

Design: This was a secondary analysis of a study that compared the differences in knowledge, experience, and preference about ADs between community and facility-dwelling older adults. Data were collected through self-reported questionnaires.

Factors influencing the degree of eating ability among people with dementia.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the degree of eating ability in people with dementia and identify what factors affect their eating ability.

Background: Appropriate food consumption is important to human life. Although eating difficulties are common among people with dementia, little is known about what factors might influence their eating ability.

Effect of domain-specific life satisfaction on depressive symptoms in late adulthood and old age: results of a cross-sectional descriptive survey.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of domain-specific life satisfaction on the risk of depressive symptoms in late adulthood and old age.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted using stratified data from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA). The respondents completed the Korean version CES-D and domain-specific life satisfaction.

[Characteristics of eating behavior in elders with dementia residing in long-term care facilities].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore characteristics of eating behavior according to level of functional status of elders with dementia (EWD), and to examine feeding time, change in food intake and body mass index (BMI) according to eating behavior.

Methods: Participants were 149 EWD residing in long-term care facilities located in Seoul or Gyeonggi province and evaluated using the Mini-Mental State Exam-Korean version, Korean version-Activities of Daily Living, and Eating Behavior Scale (EBS). Feeding time, change in food intake, and BMI were also measured.

Estimates of crowding in long-term care: comparing two approaches.

Objective: Because studies of crowding in long-term care settings are lacking, the authors sought to: (1) generate initial estimates of crowding in nursing homes and assisted living facilities; and (2) evaluate two operational approaches to its measurement.

Background: Reactions to density and proximity are complex. Greater density intensifies people's reaction to a situation in the direction (positive or negative) that they would react if the situation were to occur under less dense conditions.

Relationship between familiar environment and wandering behaviour among Korean elders with dementia.

Aim: To explore the relationship between wandering behaviour and familiar environment in community-residing persons with dementia in Korea.

Background: Numerous non-pharmacological interventions have been developed to decrease behavioural symptoms and to increase the quality of life among persons with dementia. Although the concept of familiarity is very important and environmental interventions using the concept should have been developed for persons with dementia, no study examining even the direct relationship between familiar environment and wandering has yet been published.

Premorbid characteristics and wandering behavior in persons with dementia.

This study aimed to explore relationships of premorbid personality and behavioral responses to stress with wandering behavior of persons with dementia in long-term care facilities. Ambulatory residents (N = 108) with dementia were selected from 21 long-term care facilities. The Mini-Mental State Examination, the NEO Five-Factor Personality Inventory, the Behavioral Responses to Stress Scale, and the Revised Algase Wandering Scale-Nursing Home Version (RAWS-NH) were used as data collection tools.

Wandering behaviour of persons with dementia in Korea: investigation of related factors.

Objectives: Despite being identified as a significant clinical phenomenon, wandering of persons with dementia (PWDs) has not been studied in Korea. As an initial trial, various factors chosen from the literature for their predictive relationships to wandering of Korean PWDs were evaluated in this study.

Method: A total of 160 PWDs residing in 14 long-term care facilities participated in this study.

Factors affecting burden of family caregivers of community-dwelling ambulatory elders with dementia in Korea.

The purpose of the study was to test a staged causal model as a theoretical base to explain the burden of family caregivers of community-dwelling self-ambulatory persons with dementia (PWDs) in Korea. The model contained three stages including antecedents (Stage 1), behavior (Stage 2), and outcome (Stage 3). The antecedents were variables of the PWDs (e.

[Wandering behavior in Korean elders with dementia residing in nursing homes].

Purpose: This study investigated various factors related to wandering behavior of Korean elders with dementia (KED).

Methods: A sample of 160 ambulatory residents with dementia from 14 long term care facilities was used to examine demographic, individual, cognitive, physical health, and environmental characteristics by comparing wanderers (N=108) to nonwanders (N=52). Subjects were evaluated by Korean versions of the Mini-mental State Exam (K-MMSE), the Physical and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (K-PIADL), and the Revised Algase Wandering Scale Nursing Home version (KRAWS-NH) along its six dimensions.

A comparison of wandering behavior in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Wandering, a challenging behavior associated with dementia, affects many residents of long-term care facilities and can result in elopement, injury, and death. Most studies of wandering have taken place in nursing homes (NH). Expansion of the long-term care sector over the last 2 decades has resulted in a surge in options such as assisted living facilities (ALF).