Embracing Reablement as an Essential Support Approach for Dementia Care in the 21 Century: A Position Paper.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the right of individuals with dementia and their family caregivers to access interventions that enhance their participation in society. Reablement is an approach that enables older people to participate in meaningful daily and social activities. Over the past decade, a growing body of evidence has underscored reablement as a promising approach within dementia care, including positive outcomes for people with dementia and their family caregivers, and cost-effectiveness.

Effectiveness of the 'SELF-program' on nurses' activity encouragement behavior and nursing home resident's ADL self-reliance; a cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Nurses play a crucial role in encouraging nursing home resident's activity and independent functioning. However, nurses often take over tasks unnecessarily, which can deprive resident's remaining abilities. The Function-Focused Care philosophy offers guidance for developing programs that support nurses to optimize activity and independence of older people.

The effectiveness of Function Focused Care among patients acutely admitted to hospital: A stepped wedge cluster trial.

Background: During acute hospital admission, patients often experience loss of functional status. A low level of physical activity is associated with higher levels of loss of functional status. Stimulating physical activity to maintain functional status is considered essential nursing care.

What matters to you? A mixed-method evaluation of goal setting and attainment within reablement from a client perspective.

Background: Goal setting is an essential component of reablement programmes. At the same time it is also an important aspect in the evaluation of reablement from the perspective of clients.

Objectives: As part of the TRANS-SENIOR project, this research aims to get an in-depth insight of goal setting and goal attainment within reablement services from the perspective of the older person.

A qualitative exploration of professionals' perspectives on the implementation of reablement intervention programs in community care.

Reablement is considered a complex intervention due to its multicomponent, person-centered, holistic approach promoting older adults' active participation in daily activities. It is important to consider the unique context in which complex interventions are implemented, as contextual factors may interact and influence implementation outcomes. As part of the European TRANS-SENIOR project, this qualitative study aimed to gain insight into professionals' experiences with reablement implementation in Dutch community care.

Exploring Goal-Setting and Achievement Within Reablement: A Comparative Case Study of Three Countries.

Purpose: Over the last two decades, reablement programs have been studied and implemented internationally. Goal-setting and multidisciplinary collaboration are central elements of reablement. Unfortunately, limited intervention descriptions leave questions on how they are applied in practice and how goals set by the user are achieved.

Exploring the Support and Involvement of Family Caregivers for Reablement Programs: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Reablement is a person-centered, holistic approach promoting older adults' participation through social, leisure, and physical activities. Family caregivers are seldom involved in reablement services despite their wish to be an active member of the care team and expressing a need for more support and recognition. The voice of family caregivers is often forgotten when evaluating services such as reablement.

Development and content of a community-based reablement programme (I-MANAGE): a co-creation study.

Objectives: As age increases, people generally start experiencing problems related to independent living, resulting in an increased need for long-term care services. Investing in sustainable solutions to promote independent living is therefore essential. Subsequently, reablement is a concept attracting growing interest.

The struggle is real-A mixed qualitative methods synthesis of challenges in nursing care in activities of daily living.

Introduction: Supporting care receivers in Activities of Daily Living (ADL), irrespective of diagnosis, setting, or cultural background, lies at the heart of fundamental nursing care. The pursuit of quality ADL care becomes increasingly challenging with the changing complexity of care needs. ADL care delivery is often undervalued and is considered a low-status task despite its crucial importance to care receivers.

Effective nursing interventions in ADL care affecting independence and comfort - a systematic review.

Despite its frequent provision, evidence of nursing interventions in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) remains unclear. Hence, we addressed the research question: What are the effects of ADL nursing interventions on independence and comfort in adults across all care settings? We conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies described in systematic reviews. In three databases, we searched for systematic reviews that we used as a portal to select (quasi) experimental studies.

Effects on clients' daily functioning and common features of reablement interventions: a systematic literature review.

Unlabelled: This systematic review aimed to provide an overview of reablement interventions according to the recently published ReAble definition and their effect on Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In addition, the most common and promising features of these reablement interventions were identified. Four electronic bibliographic databases were searched.

Correction to: The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review.

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Identifying personal beliefs of nursing staff about encouraging psychogeriatric nursing home residents in daily activities: A qualitative study.

Aim: To identify personal beliefs of Dutch nursing staff about encouraging psychogeriatric nursing home residents in daily activities.

Design: Qualitative study following COREQ guidelines.

Methods: Fifteen semi-structured interviews with Dutch nursing staff of wards hosting psychogeriatric residents were conducted in Spring 2021.

The concept of disability and its causal mechanisms in older people over time from a theoretical perspective: a literature review.

Ageing with a disability increases the risk of hospitalization and nursing home admission. Ageing in place interventions aiming to reduce disability are often not sufficiently effective and inadequately theory-based. There are many models available on disability, but it is unclear how they define disability, what their differences are, and how they evolved throughout the years.

The jigsaw puzzle of activities for mastering daily life; service recipients and professionals' perceptions of gains and changes attributed to reablement - A qualitative meta-synthesis.

Background: Reablement services are intended to make a difference in the daily lives of older adults. Outcomes are often described in terms of independence, improving quality of life, improving ADL functioning, or reducing services. However, little is known if the older adults or next-of-kin experience these outcomes when talking about participating in reablement services.

Effect, economic and process-evaluation of a generic function focused care program for long-term care; study protocol of a multicenter cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Nurses are in a key position to stimulate older people to maximize their functional activity and independence. However, nurses still often work in a task-oriented manner and tend to take over tasks unnecessarily. It is evident to support nurses to focus on the capabilities of older people and provide care assistance only when required.

Identifying client characteristics to predict homecare use more accurately: a Delphi-study involving nurses and homecare purchasing specialists.

Background: Case-mix based prospective payment of homecare is being implemented in several countries to work towards more efficient and client-centred homecare. However, existing models can only explain a limited part of variance in homecare use, due to their reliance on health- and function-related client data. It is unclear which predictors could improve predictive power of existing case-mix models.

Economic Evaluation of a Reablement Training Program for Homecare Staff Targeting Sedentary Behavior in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Compared to Usual Care: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: Training and supporting homecare staff in reablement aims to change staff behavior from "doing for" to "doing with" older adults and is assumed to benefit the health and quality of life of older adults and reduce healthcare utilization and costs. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of the staff reablement training program "Stay Active at Home" (SAaH) from a societal perspective.

Participants And Methods: An economic evaluation was embedded in a 12-month cluster randomized controlled trial.

In the Eye of the Storm: A Quantitative and Qualitative Account of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dutch Home Healthcare.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected healthcare delivery across the world. However, little is known about COVID-19's impact on home healthcare (HHC) services. Our study aimed to: (1) describe the changes in volume and intensity of HHC services and the crisis management policies implemented; (2) understand the responses and the experiences of HHC staff and clients.

Effectiveness of a reablement training program on self-efficacy and outcome expectations regarding client activation in homecare staff: A cluster randomized controlled trial.

Training and supporting homecare staff in reablement aims to change staff behavior from "doing for" to "doing with" older adults, i.e., supporting client activation.

Function focused care in hospital: A mixed-method feasibility study.

Background: During hospitalization patients frequently have a low level of physical activity, which is an important risk factor for functional decline. Function Focused Care (FFC) is an evidence-based intervention developed in the United States to prevent functional decline in older patients. Within FFC, nurses help older patients optimally participate in functional and physical activity during all care interactions.

Process evaluation of a programme to empower community nurse leadership.

Background: The Nurses in the Lead (NitL) programme consists of a systematic approach and training to 1) empower community nurses in implementing evidence, targeted at encouraging functional activities of older adults, and 2) train community nurses in enabling team members to change their practice. This article aims to describe the process evaluation of NitL.

Methods: A mixed-methods formative process evaluation with a predominantly qualitative approach was conducted.

Effectiveness of a reablement training program for homecare staff on older adults' sedentary behavior: A cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background/objectives: Homecare staff often take over activities instead of "doing activities with" clients, thereby hampering clients from remaining active in daily life. Training and supporting staff to integrate reablement into their working practices may reduce clients' sedentary behavior and improve their independence. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the "Stay Active at Home" (SAaH) reablement training program for homecare staff on older homecare clients' sedentary behavior.

Nurses' perceptions of their role with respect to promoting physical activity in adult patients: a systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the nurses' perceptions of their role with respect to promoting physical activity in adult patients and factors related to this role perceptions.

Background: Ageing and chronic diseases are often accompanied by a decrease in physical activity. Nurses are in an excellent position to promote physical activity, because of their close and frequent interactions with patients.

The content of the nurses in the lead programme for empowering community nurse leadership in implementing evidence.

Purpose: This study aims to provide a detailed description of the nurses in the lead (NitL) programme for empowering community nurse leadership in implementing evidence.

Design/methodology/approach: The NitL programme is described using the template for intervention description and replication-checklist.

Findings: The NitL programme consists of two components.