ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Spiritual Needs of Older Adults Living with Dementia: An Integrative Review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- From Sensory Deprivation to Psychosis: Environmental Mechanisms of Delirium in Dementia-An Eight-Year Retrospective Longitudinal Case Report and Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exploring Spiritual Care Competence Among Geriatric Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study with a Multicultural Perspective from China.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- The Value of Playwork for Care Home Residents Living With Dementia: A Pilot Study.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Article
- Faith, Social Connection, and Aging: A Narrative Review of the Impact of Religious and Spiritual Engagement on Social Well-being in Older Adults Across Global Contexts.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Exploring spirituality in palliative care services: an All-Ireland survey.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Potential Mechanisms of Influence Between Spiritual Practices and Cognitive Health: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Model.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Job-Related Emotional Exhaustion and Frequency of Spiritual Caregiving in Nurses Caring for Elderly Patients: An Example of Turkey.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- A Best-Worst Scaling Study of the General Population's Preferences for Activities in Living Arrangements for Persons With Dementia.The patient · 2024Article
- Spiritual Care through the Lens of Portuguese Palliative Care Professionals: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Better spiritual support for people living with early stage dementia: Developing the diamond conversation model.Dementia (London, England) · 2024Article
- Spiritual needs of older adults with cancer: A modified concept analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2023Review
- Spiritual practices for dementia care of Black persons: An integrative review.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Review
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Abstract
Older adults living with dementia experience progressive decline, prompting reliance on others for spiritual care and support. Despite a growing interest in studying persons living with dementia (PLwDs), empirical evidence on the spiritual needs of PLwDs has not been synthesized. Using the Whittemore and Knafl method, this integrative review examined the literature from 2000 to 2022 on the spiritual care needs of PLwDs. We sought to identify characteristics of the spiritual needs of PLwDs and ways to address them. The ATLA Religion, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Socindex databases were used to search the literature, and 12 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Spiritual care needs varied across studies. Overall, findings support the importance of identifying PLwDs' religious and spiritual backgrounds to inform person-centered care. Spiritual needs were identified as verbal and non-verbal expressions related to past meaning and religious and spiritual background and were not consistently addressed in care. Providers reported observing spiritual distress in the mild stage prompting the need for spiritual care. There is a great need for dementia-specific spiritual assessment tools and spiritual care interventions to support spiritual well-being in dementia care. Spiritual care involves facilitating religious rituals and providing spiritual group therapy and religious and spiritual activities.
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