Significant Activities in the Integrated Person-centered Care Model

Summary

The increasing life expectancy and global aging population necessitate changes in long-term gerontological services based on Person-Centred Care approaches. This study aims to improve Person-Centred Care in geriatric centers through meaningful activities and the role of occupational therapists and direct care professionals in developing these activities. A descriptive cross-sectional quasi-experimental design was proposed, with 10 participants.

Interventions

• meaningful activities · OTHER

  The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 27 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.

• other activities · OTHER

  The intervention proposal will be developed in a module with 27 elderly people, all of them men, with moderate dependence and older, with an average age of 84 years. All of them have multiple medical pathologies with the need for continuous nursing care.

Published eligibility criteria

Verbatim from the registry. Only the site can decide how these apply to a specific patient.

Inclusion Criteria:

* That the direct care worker has a degree as a nursing assistant, dependency care technician, geroculturist or certificate of professionalism.
* The worker must speak and understand Spanish.
* The residence must offer service during the day, in the morning or afternoon shift.
* Workers must have been with the department for more than 4 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Workers who work night shift only.
* Workers on rotating shifts in all departments of the residence.
* Workers absent at the time of the study due to temporary leave, vacations or other causes.

Sites (1)

• Olalla Saiz Vazquez, Burgos, Burgos, Spain · RECRUITING