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Pendl D, Glatz M, Gasteiger-Klicpera B. Intellectual disabilities and dementia: New tasks and experiences of Austrian formal caregivers. JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES 2024; 37:e13165. [PMID: 37849394 DOI: 10.1111/jar.13165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND In Austria, due to its history, only relatively little research on the topic of intellectual disabilities and dementia has been conducted to date. The present study thus aims to explore the challenges and tasks currently facing formal caregivers, together with assessing their wishes for further development. METHODS Ten semi-structured interviews were held with formal caregivers. Interviews were transcribed and analysed by means of structured qualitative content analysis. RESULTS Caregivers must deal with conflicts between residents, and with increasing demands for care and emotional support. Education and training on dementia and intellectual disability are mostly of high quality, but still remain insufficient. Caregivers would like to see suitable adaptation of care premises, smaller groups, more staff and better training on dementia and intellectual disability. CONCLUSION To ensure quality care and 'ageing in place', caregivers and providers need to pay greater attention to dementia-related changes when planning and adapting services.
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- Dominik Pendl
- Inclusive Education Unit, University of Graz, Institute of Education Research and Teacher Education, Graz, Austria
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- Inclusive Education Unit, University of Graz, Institute of Education Research and Teacher Education, Graz, Austria
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- Inclusive Education Unit, University of Graz, Institute of Education Research and Teacher Education, Graz, Austria
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Wolverson E, Appleyard S, Stirland S, Gower Z. The palliative care symptoms of people with dementia on admission to a mental health ward. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2023; 38:e5995. [PMID: 37681496 DOI: 10.1002/gps.5995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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Key points
When patients with dementia are admitted to a mental health ward it is important to undertake a thorough assessment of palliative care needs.
The Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale for Dementia can support the assessment and management of palliative care symptoms and concerns in mental health wards.
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- Emma Wolverson
- Dementia UK, London, UK
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK
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- Department of Clinical Psychology for Older People, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Hull, UK
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- Department of Clinical Psychology for Older People, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Hull, UK
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Jacobs P, Watchman K, Wilkinson H, Hoyle L, McGenily L. Experiences of people with intellectual disability and dementia: A systematic review. JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES 2023; 36:241-258. [PMID: 36562340 PMCID: PMC10107172 DOI: 10.1111/jar.13063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dementia disproportionately affects people with intellectual disability. Most qualitative studies explore their experiences by utilising proxy-reports. A smaller number of studies illustrate the possibility of exploring perspectives directly from people with intellectual disability and dementia. METHOD This systematic review synthesised findings from existing studies (n = 8) that involve people with intellectual disability and dementia as participants to understand their experiences of dementia. Searches were conducted using CINAHL, PsychInfo and Social Services Abstracts. RESULTS Findings include descriptions of changes in individual functioning, a narrowing of social worlds and of how people made sense of the changes despite often having no knowledge of their dementia diagnosis. Additionally, discussion focuses on how people's experiences are shaped by their environments. CONCLUSION The review recognises the complexities of speaking to people with intellectual disability about dementia, challenges views that people with intellectual and dementia cannot be involved in research and makes recommendations to support inclusion in future studies.
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- Paula Jacobs
- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
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- Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK.,Clinical Research Nurse, NHS Forth Valley, Larbert/Postgraduate Research Student, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
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Appelgren M, Persson K, Bahtsevani C, Borglin G. Swedish registered nurses' perceptions of caring for patients with intellectual and developmental disability: A qualitative descriptive study. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY 2022; 30:1064-1076. [PMID: 34009687 DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Patients with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) are often misinterpreted and misunderstood. Studies show that, in general, healthcare professionals have limited knowledge about IDD, and registered nurses (RNs) often report feeling unprepared to support this group of patients. Therefore, more knowledge about how to adequately address care for this patient group is warranted. This qualitative study employs an interpretative descriptive design to explore and describe Swedish RNs' perceptions of caring for patients with IDD, here in a home-care setting. Twenty RNs were interviewed between September 2018 and May 2019, and the resulting data were analysed through an inductive qualitative content analysis. The study adheres to consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ). Our analysis found that nurses' perceptions of caring for patients with an IDD could be understood from three overarching categories: nursing held hostage in the context of care, care dependent on intuition and proven experience and contending for the patients' right to adequate care. Our findings show that the home-care context and organisation were not adjusted to the needs of the patients. This resulted in RNs feeling unable to provide care in accordance with their professional values. They also explained that they had not mastered the available augmentative and alternative communication tools, instead using support staff as interpreters for their patients. Finally, on a daily basis, the RNs caring for this group of patients took an active stance and fought for the patients' right to receive the right care at the right time by the right person. This was particularly the case with issues involving psychiatric care.
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- Marie Appelgren
- Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
- City of Malmö, Borough Administration Operation Support Management, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
- Department of Nursing Education, Lovisenberg Diaconal University College, Oslo, Norway
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Doody O, Bailey ME, Hennessy T. Nature and extent of intellectual disability nursing research in Ireland: a scoping review to inform health and health service research. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e051858. [PMID: 34615681 PMCID: PMC8496393 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To capture the extent and nature of intellectual disability nursing publications in Ireland. DESIGN Scoping review using Arksey and O'Malley approach. DATA SOURCES Six databases (PsycINFO, CINAHL, Medline, Academic Search Complete, Scopus, Embase) were searched along with a web-based search of the eight academic institutions delivering intellectual disability nurse education in Ireland for publications indexed from the earliest available date to the 31 December 2020. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Publications by an academic, practitioner or student working in intellectual disability practice or education in Ireland relating to intellectual disability nursing, care or education. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS Data pertaining to type of paper/design, authors (academic/professional/student), year, collaboration (national/international), topic/content area and title were extracted from each paper. Data were analysed by two authors using Colorafi and Evans content analysis steps where data was tabulated, and a narrative synthesis undertaken. RESULTS The reporting of the review is in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist. Database and web-based searching resulting 245 articles meeting the criteria for this review. Through content analysis the 245 articles were mapped onto six themes: supporting inclusion, future planning, aspects of health, interventions, education, professional development and research, and personal and professional accounts of caring. CONCLUSIONS This review highlights the extent and nature of intellectual disability publications by academic, practitioner or student working in intellectual disability nursing in Ireland together with opportunities for future growth and development. From the findings it is apparent that there is an ongoing need for intellectual disability nurses to define their role across the full trajectory of health provision and to make visible their role in person-family centred support, inclusion, and contributions in health education, health promotion and health management.
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- Owen Doody
- Nursing and Midwifery, Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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van der Steen JT, Westzaan A, Hanemaayer K, Muhamad M, de Waal MWM, Achterberg WP. Probable Pain on the Pain Assessment in Impaired Cognition (PAIC15) Instrument: Assessing Sensitivity and Specificity of Cut-Offs against Three Standards. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11070869. [PMID: 34210018 PMCID: PMC8301856 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11070869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Observational pain scales can help to identify pain in persons with dementia who may have difficulty expressing pain verbally. The Pain Assessment in Impaired Cognition-15 (PAIC15) covers 15 items that indicate pain, but it is unclear how probable pain is, for each summed score (range 0–45). We aimed to determine sensitivity and specificity of cut-offs for probable pain on the PAIC15 against three standards: (1) self-report when able, (2) the established Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) cut-off of 2, and (3) observer’s overall estimate based on a series of systematic observations. We used data of 238 nursing home residents with dementia who were observed by their physician in training or nursing staff in the context of an evidence-based medicine (EBM) training study, with re-assessment after 2 months in 137 residents. The area under the ROC curve was excellent against the PAINAD cut-off (≥0.8) but acceptable or less than acceptable for the other two standards. Across standards and criteria for optimal sensitivity and specificity, PAIC15 scores of 3 and higher represent possible pain for screening in practice, with sensitivity and specificity against self-report in the 0.5 to 0.7 range. While sensitivity for screening in practice may be too low, a cut-off of 4 is reasonable to indicate probable pain in research.
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- Jenny T. van der Steen
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
- Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
- Aafje Thuiszorg, Huizen en Zorghotels, Pietersdijk 60, 3079 TD Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
- Franciscus Vlietland Hospital, Vlietlandplein 2, 3118 JH Schiedam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
- Stichting Voor Regionale Zorgverlening (Nursing Home), Prins Clauslaan 1, 4691 ZA Tholen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; (A.W.); (K.H.); (M.M.); (M.W.M.d.W.); (W.P.A.)
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Increased heart rate functions as a signal of acute distress in non-communicating persons with intellectual disability. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6479. [PMID: 33742078 PMCID: PMC7979830 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86023-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Intellectual disability (ID) affects approximately 1% of the population. Some patients with severe or profound ID are essentially non-communicating and therefore risk experiencing pain and distress without being able to notify their caregivers, which is a major health issue. This real-world proof of concept study aimed to see if heart rate (HR) monitoring could reveal whether non-communicating persons with ID experience acute pain or distress in their daily lives. We monitored HR in 14 non-communicating participants with ID in their daily environment to see if specific situations were associated with increased HR. We defined increased HR as being > 1 standard deviation above the daily mean and lasting > 5 s. In 11 out of 14 participants, increased HR indicated pain or distress in situations that were not previously suspected to be stressful, e.g. passive stretching of spastic limbs or being transported in patient lifts. Increased HR suggesting joy was detected in three participants (during car rides, movies). In some situations that were previously suspected to be stressful, absence of HR increase suggested absence of pain or distress. We conclude that HR monitoring may identify acute pain and distress in non-communicating persons with ID, allowing for improved health care for this patient group.
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Segerlantz M, Axmon A, Gagnemo Persson R, Brun E, Ahlström G. Prescription of pain medication among older cancer patients with and without an intellectual disability: a national register study. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:1040. [PMID: 31684896 PMCID: PMC6829972 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-6290-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background The longevity for people with intellectual disability (ID) has significantly increased in developed countries during the past decades. Consequently, the incidence of cancer is expected to increase in this group. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prescription of pain medication in older cancer patients with intellectual disability (ID) compared to older patients in the general population, surviving or living with a cancer diagnosis. Methods This Swedish national registry-based study, included people with ID aged 55 years or older in 2012, and alive at the end of that year (ID cohort, n = 7936). For comparisons, we used a referent cohort, one-to-one matched with the general population by year of birth and sex (gPop cohort, n = 7936). People with at least one diagnosis of cancer during 2002–2012 were identified using the Swedish National Patient Register, resulting in 555 cancer patients with ID and 877 cancer patients from the general population. These two cohorts of cancer patients were compared with respect to prescription of pain medication for the period 2006–2012. Outcome data were aggregated so that each patient was categorized as either having or not having at least one prescription of each investigated drug group during the study period, and relative risks (RRs) for prescription were estimated for prescription in the ID cohort vs the gPop cohort. Results Cancer patients with ID were less likely than cancer patients in the gPop cohort to have at least one prescription of COX inhibitors (RR 0.61) and weak opioids (RR 0.63). They were, however, more likely to be prescribed paracetamol (RR 1.16), antidepressants (RR 2.09), anxiolytics (RR 2.84), and “other hypnotics, sedatives, and neuroleptics” (RR 1.39). No statistically significant differences between the two cohorts were found for strong opioids, antiepileptics, tricyclic antidepressants, or hypnotics and sedatives. Conclusion In the studied cohort of older people surviving or living with cancer, prescriptions for pain-treatment was less common in patients with ID compared to the general population. These results may suggest that pain is not sufficiently treated among cancer patients with ID, a situation that most likely would compromise the quality of life in this group.
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- Mikael Segerlantz
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Institute for Palliative Care, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Department of Palliative Care and Advanced Home Health Care, Primary Health Care Skane, Region Skane, Lund, Sweden
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- EPI@LUND (Epidemiology, Population studies, and Infrastructures at Lund University), Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Box 157, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.,Department of Radiotherapy and Radiophysics, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Box 157, 221 00, Lund, Sweden.
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Harmon J, Summons P, Higgins I. Experiences of the older hospitalised person on nursing pain care: An ethnographic insight. J Clin Nurs 2019; 28:4447-4459. [DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Revised: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Joanne Harmon
- Division of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery University of South Australia Adelaide SA Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Information Technology School of Design Communication and IT University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW Australia
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- Faculty of Health and Medicine School of Nursing and Midwifery University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW Australia
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