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.

Identifying the prevalence of Parkinson's disease in Denmark using healthcare registries and self-reported survey data.

Introduction: Existing estimates of PD prevalence in Denmark are lower than those in the rest of Europe and are based on identification via single registries. Hence, are aim was to use a combined registry/self-report survey approach to identify people with PD and also investigate whether using different registry methods led to differences in the accuracy, completeness and characteristics of the identified cohorts.

Methods: This study had a cross-sectional design using routinely collected health registry data to identify adults, ≥18 years of age and resident in Denmark, with PD from either the Danish National Patient (DNP) registry or Danish Prescription Medicines (DPM) registry.

Combined rehabilitation and palliative care interventions for patients with life-threatening diseases - PREGOAL. A scoping review of intervention programme goals.

Purpose: WHO recommends integrating rehabilitation into palliative care when providing services for people with life-threatening conditions. Recently, there has been increasing interest in exploring how rehabilitation and palliative care approaches could be combined. The aim of this study was to map and discuss the goals of intervention programmes that combine rehabilitation and palliative care.

Experiences of improvement of everyday life following a rehabilitation programme for people with long-term cognitive effects of COVID-19: Qualitative study.

Aim And Objectives: To explore challenges in everyday life for people with long-term cognitive effects of COVID-19 and whether a rehabilitation programme contributed to the remedy thereof.

Background: Healthcare systems around the world need knowledge about acute COVID-19 treatment, long-term effects exerting an impact on peoples' everyday lives, and how to remedy these.

Design: This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach.

Organizational narratives in rehabilitation-focused dementia care - Negotiating identities, interventions and personhood.

Background: Rehabilitation is increasingly being introduced in dementia care but studies highlight extensive heterogeneity in practices, conceptual confusion and divergent perceptions of its relevance across care organizations and national contexts. As this have implications for development of dementia care as well as for people with dementia's access to care it is important to study the organizational narratives and practices in rehabilitation-oriented dementia care organizations.

Methods: The study build on qualitative interviews (individual and group interviews) with health professionals (N = 26) engaged with dementia care and rehabilitation in two Danish municipalities.

Goals and Action Plans Across Time and Place-A Qualitative Study Exploring the Importance of "Context" in Person-Centered Rehabilitation.

Background: Person-centeredness is increasingly addressed in relation to rehabilitation interventions. Collaborative goal setting and action plans are key measures in person-centered rehabilitation. There is a lack of knowledge about how person-centered goals and action plans developed away from the patient's everyday life are experienced by patients after discharge.

Rehabilitation Research in Denmark Between 2001 and 2020: A Scoping Review.

Unlabelled: The demand for rehabilitation has increased, and evidence is rapidly growing; however, a rehabilitative health strategy receives less attention than treatment. Knowledge of what is being researched, who are the target groups and who contributes to rehabilitation research is deficient. We did not find any reviews mapping rehabilitation research regarding the research questions.

Ageing, dementia and the future - ambivalent futurework in rehabilitation-focused dementia care.

Due to its goal-orientation, rehabilitation may be considered a future-oriented practice. As rehabilitation is increasingly recognized as contributing to dementia care it is important to explore how rehabilitation corresponds with the future orientation of older people with dementia.The aim of this study was to explore the futurework of home-dwelling people with mild to moderate dementia in the context of rehabilitation-focused municipal dementia care, that is, their thinking and practices regarding their future and how these correspond with institutionalized practices.

Psychometric Properties of the Danish Version of the Questionnaire Professionals' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (PA-SH-D).

Background: Health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are important to promote patients' sexual health. Therefore, measurement of health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health is essential.

Aim: This study aimed to adapt the questionnaire Students' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (SA-SH-D) to health professionals working with rehabilitation in Danish municipalities and evaluated psychometric properties of the adapted questionnaire: The Danish Version of the Professionals' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (PA-SH-D).

Rehabilitation and palliative care: histories, dialectics and challenges.

Rehabilitation and palliative care are health care fields with separate histories but some recent convergences. Both have been identified as components within universal health coverage and each is the subject of a supportive World Health Assembly Resolution. We draw on the historiography of the two specialties, a recent systematic review of their engagement with each other as described in 62 studies, and critical policy perspectives to examine how rehabilitation and palliative care have been framed as potential partners in care.

Towards person-centred rehabilitation in dementia - a narrative synthesis.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify and synthesize person-centred principles and components as described in rehabilitation intervention studies which target home dwelling people with mild to moderate dementia.

Materials And Methods: A narrative synthesis was carried out which included 19 rehabilitation intervention studies targeting people with mild to moderate dementia. The analysis was guided by an initial program theory about person-centredness in rehabilitation, which was developed for this purpose.

Rehabilitation for People Living with Dementia: A Scoping Review of Processes and Outcomes.

Objectives: The aim of this scoping review was to map intervention studies of rehabilitation for people living with dementia regarding processes and outcomes, with a particular focus on whether the intervention is person-centred, home-based, or organised adopting a multidisciplinary approach and measures outcomes relating to everyday functioning and well-being.

Methods: A systematic search of electronic databases was conducted in PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, and Cochrane. Studies from 2005 to November 2018 were collected and screened for relevance and quality.

Evaluation of Person-Centredness in Rehabilitation for People Living with Dementia Is Needed: A Review of the Literature.

Background: With an expected increase in the prevalence of dementia, change in care policies and healthcare systems worldwide is needed. Rehabilitation is increasingly recognised as contributing to dementia care. Rehabilitation subscribes to person-centredness, and thus, evaluations of person-centredness in rehabilitation for people living with dementia are relevant in order for healthcare professionals to know how best to practice person-centredness.

Systematic assessment of the rehabilitation needs in early stage dementia for home-dwelling people: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map assessment tools and procedures that are used by health and social care professionals in dementia care for the systematic assessment of the need for rehabilitation in primary and/or secondary healthcare settings for home-dwelling people diagnosed with early stage dementia based on recognized diagnostic criteria.

Implementation between text and work-a qualitative study of a readmission prevention program targeting elderly patients.

Background: Numerous studies emphasize the importance of context in implementation. Successful implementation across the health care system depends on conditions and requirements that are often presented to health professionals through text-based materials and might present contradictory expectations to the work of health professionals. In this study, we operationalize institutional context as the text-based material, which from the perspective of health professionals, influence health care work.

[Coordinating rehabilitation and palliative care].

There is an increased focus on coordinating rehabilitation and palliative care (CRPC). A systematic Danish literature review on CRPC highlights the following: the main arguments and recommendations for such a coordination, that CRPC might be meaningful for patients throughout the disease trajectory and until the very end of it, that there is a lack of evidence-based research in this area, and that there is a lot of structural, organizational and professional challenges in securing CRPC.

A prospective evaluation of the clinical value of nation-wide DNA fingerprinting of tuberculosis isolates in Denmark.

Setting: Denmark, a country with a low incidence of tuberculosis (TB).

Objective: To evaluate the value of the nation-wide DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates performed in Denmark since 1992.

Design: Prospective study of consecutive patients with culture-verified TB from five large TB Departments in Denmark during a 7-month period in 1998.