01-02-2015 | Uitgave 1/2015
Transitie van een psychogeriatrische dagbehandeling in het verpleeghuis naar een laagdrempelige dagbehandeling in de wijk: een pilotonderzoek
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Transition of a psychogeriatric day care in the nursing home to easy-access day care plus caregiver support in the community: a pilot study
Background
In this study, the transition of a nursing home based psychogeriatric day care centre to an easy-access community day care centre plus caregiver support (DC-plus CS) is followed closely. The transition was based on the proven effective Meeting Centres Support Program.
Method
By means of qualitative analysis of documents and interviews with key persons (n = 11) we investigate facilitating and impeding factors for making this transition. Besides, we evaluate the satisfaction of participants and informal caregivers that used the new support program longer than 6 months.
Results
Several characteristics of the innovation (DC-plus CS) help to establish cooperation with other care and welfare services in the region, such as: the easy-access location, the social integration in the community, and the focus on combined support for people with dementia and their informal carers. The good cooperation and the suitable location in the community facilitate the implementation. At first, the presence of other community care-centres for people with dementia and their informal carers in the neighbourhood impedes the recruitment of new participants for the DC-plus CS. In general, the satisfaction of participants and informal carers about the support program is high.
Conclusion and discussion
The transition is made successfully and this study gives other psychogeriatric day care centres in the nursing home insight in how to make a similar transition to DC-plus CS.