ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2018
Quality of life in small-scaled homelike nursing homes: an 8-month controlled trial.
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- Assessment of innovative living and care arrangements for persons with dementia: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Physical environmental designs in residential care to improve quality of life of older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Social interactions of persons with dementia living in special care units in long-term care: A mixed-methods systematic review.Dementia (London, England) · 2021Pooled it
- A Mixed-Methods Scoping Review of Innovative Long-term Care Facility Design and Associated Outcomes.Innovation in aging · 2025Review
- Preferences for Living Arrangements in Dementia: A Discrete Choice Experiment.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2024Article
- An overview of innovative living arrangements within long-term care and their characteristics: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Stakeholder's experiences of living and caring in technology-rich supported living environments for tenants living with dementia.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Community expectations of a village for people living with dementia.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Home- and community-level predictors of social connection in nursing home residents: A scoping review.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Context, mechanisms and outcomes of dementia special care units: An initial programme theory based on realist methodology.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundQuality of life is a clinical highly relevant outcome for residents with dementia. The question arises whether small scaled homelike facilities are associated with better quality of life than regular larger scale nursing homes do.
methodsA sample of 145 residents living in a large scale care facility were followed over 8 months. Half of the sample (N = 77) subsequently moved to a small scaled facility. Quality of life aspects were measured with the QUALIDEM and GIP before and after relocation.
resultsWe found a significant Group x Time interaction on measures of anxiety meaning that residents who moved to small scale units became less anxious than residents who stayed on the regular care large-scale units. No significant differences were found on other aspects of quality of life.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates that residents who move from a large scale facility to a small scale environment can improve an aspect of quality of life by showing a reduction in anxiety.
trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN11151241 . registration date: 21-06-2017. Retrospectively registered.
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