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Hsiao, Hua-Tsen; Chang, Chiung-Chih; Chen, Nai-Ching; Chiu, Herng-Chia; Huang, Chi-Wei; Lee, Feng-Ping; Wang, Jing-Jy – Educational Gerontology, 2020
Family caregivers play a critical role in dietary care and the nutritional status of people with dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a family care-based dementia dietary educational program (DDEP) on family caregivers' nutritional knowledge, healthy eating behavior and nutritional status of people with dementia. A…
Descriptors: Dementia, Nutrition, Pretests Posttests, Scores
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Øye, Christine; Mekki, Tone Elin; Skaar, Randi; Dahl, Hellen; Forland, Oddvar; Jacobsen, Frode F. – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Knowledge utilization is politically "hot" because it informs decisions on improving the quality of care in nursing homes (NHs). The difficulties encountered in implementing evidence-based knowledge into practice may be explained by contextual factors. Contextual factors are crucial to understanding the process of knowledge utilization;…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Knowledge Level, Evidence Based Practice, Context Effect
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Meligne, D.; Fossard, M.; Belliard, S.; Moreaud, O.; Duvignau, K.; Demonet, J.-F. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
In contrast with widely documented deficits of semantic knowledge relating to object concepts and the corresponding nouns in semantic dementia (SD), little is known about action semantics and verb production in SD. The degradation of action semantic knowledge was studied in 5 patients with SD compared with 17 matched control participants in an…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Semantics, Verbs, Dementia
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Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska; Jensen, Barbara; Resnick, Barbara; Norris, Margaret – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose of the Study: Behavior problems are common in nursing homes. Current guidelines recommend nonpharmacological interventions (NPHIs) as first-line treatment, but pharmacological regimens (PIs) continue to be used. Given differences in background and training of those who treat behavior problems in residents, we compared attitudes of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Psychologists, Physicians, Nurses