Attending to difference: enacting individuals in food provision for residents with dementia

Progressive dementia and hypersomnolence with dream-enacting behavior: oneiric dementia.

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are associated with several types of degenerative dementias, including Alzheimer and prion diseases. Animal models have demonstrated abolition of rapid eye movement atonia, resulting in dream-enacting complex movements termed oneiric behavior, and patients with fatal familial insomnia may have vivid dreams that intrude on wakefulness. OBJECTIVE To describe a new for...

Culture change for residents with dementia.

Culture change is a “buzzword” that is used to describe many attempts to improve quality of life of nursing home residents. It may be defined as “transformation to person-directed care that restores control to elders and those who work closest with them.” In person-directed care “residents truly direct their own care and make their own choices about how they spend their time. Staff members are ...

Characteristics associated with low food and fluid intake in long-term care residents with dementia.

This article describes the prevalence, assessment, and treatment of, as well as characteristics associated with, the food and fluid intake of 407 residents with dementia in 45 assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Overall, 54% of observed residents had low food intake, and 51% had low fluid intake. Staff monitoring of residents, having meals in a public dining area, and the presence of ...

Prevalence and factors associated with food intake difficulties among residents with dementia

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the prevalence of food intake difficulties and their associated factors among residents with dementia in long-term care facilities in Taiwan. The purpose of the study was to identify the best cutoff point for the Chinese Feeding Difficulty Index (Ch-FDI), which evaluates the prevalence of food intake difficulties and recognizes factors associated with eating...

Advance Illness Care Teams for Residents with Advanced Dementia