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ArticleAgeing and society2022

Right at Home: Living with Dementia and Multimorbidities.

Nicola A Cunningham, Julie Cowie, Karen Methven

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Article in Ageing and society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicola A CunninghamFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Stirling.
Julie CowieNMAHP RU, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Karen MethvenFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Stirling.

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CGA/18/09
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dementia is recognised as the biggest health crisis of our time in terms of high personal and social costs and wider impact on health and social care systems. Increases in people living with dementia and multimorbidities presents critical challenges for homecare worldwide. Healthcare systems struggle to provide adequate home-care services, delivering limited care restricted to a single-condition focus. This study explored the experiences and expectations of homecare from the multiple perspectives of people living with dementia and multimorbidities and homecare workers providing support. Findings draw from qualititative semi-structured interviews with people with dementia (n=2), their partners (n=2), other partners or family carers (n=6) and homecare workers (n=26). Three themes are idenfiifed: (a) the preference for and value of home; (b) inadequate homecare provision and enhanced care-burden; (c) limited training and education. Despite continued calls for homecare investment, the focus on reduction in costs hides key questions and further dialogue required exploring how people with dementia can be supported to live independendently and flourish at-home. This study considers these complex experiences and care requirements through the prism of disability and human rights frameworks. This paper concludes with consideration of more recent human social rights debate. We critically dicuss what this may mean for people living with dementia and consider the implications for corequisite policy development to optimise available homecare support.

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dementiahomecareindependent-livingmultimorbiditiessocial rights

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PMID35177874
PMCPMC7612373

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