Communication with seniors with dementia syndrome in the context of health and social care in nursing homes with special regime

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31612/3041-1548.2.2024.05" target="_blank" >10.31612/3041-1548.2.2024.05</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Communication with seniors with dementia syndrome in the context of health and social care in nursing homes with special regime

Original language description

Introduction. Care of senirors with dementia syndrome in nursing home with specifial régime special regime has the character of health and social care, which is provided by doctors and especially non-medical workers such as general nurses, social workers, social service workers and other workers. Communicating with seniors with dementia is often difficult for nursing home with special regime workers and in practice brings a number of situations that they need to be able to deal with as professionals.The aim. The aim of the quantitative research was to find out what the staff in nursing home with special regime do well in communicating with seniors with dementia. A sub-objective was to find out what communication difficulties seniors with dementia have from the perspective of staff in nursing home with specific regime.Materials and methods. A quantitative research strategy was chosen. The interviewing method and the questionnaire technique of self-constructed questionnaire were used. The research sample consisted of 82 workers in the helping professions who were employed in nursing homes with special regime in a selected region and district in the Czech Republic. Purposive sampling across institutions was chosen as the method for selecting respondents. The quantitative data was processed and statistically evaluated using IBM SPSS Statistics software. Testing for dependence was performed using Pearson chi-square test and Fisher&apos;s exact test, and a significance level of α &lt; 0,05 was chosen.Results and discussion. Results and discussion. Workers in nursing homes with special regime are most successful in communicating with seniors with dementia by 1. talking to them about the chosen topic; 2. establishing contact with seniors with demenitia; 3. persuading seniors with dementia to perform the required action; 4. keeping seniors with dementia in a good mood and finding out their wishes and needs. The most common topics chosen by the staff of nursing homes with special regime are family, interests and work, the weather, the past, food, animals and nature. The most common problematic situations related to the care of seniors with dementia encountered by the staff of nursing homes with special regime include: 1. stereotyping of topics, 2. stereotyped repetition of situations, 3. angry and vulgar expressions used by seniors, 4. refusal of communication by seniors with dementia, 5. difficulty in establishing contact with seniors with dementia.Conslusions. Staff in nursing home with special regime need to have knowledge and skills related to the specifics of caring for seniors with dementia syndrome. They need to know the principles of communication with people with dementia so that they can understand their clients&apos; behaviour and any problematic or inappropriate behaviour. In this context, lifelong learning for nursing home with special regime staff, multidisciplinarity and mutual cooperation within the interprofessional team seem to be important. Support and appreciation, especially from the bosses, interview meetings and regular external supervision can also be seen as useful in preventing burnout syndrome.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ukrainian educational and scientific medical space

ISSN

3041-153X

e-ISSN

3041-1548

Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

UA - UKRAINE

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

41-47

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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