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Title: A needs assessment in dementia.
Authors: Vassallo, Brigette
Keywords: Dementia -- Patients -- Care -- Malta
Dementia -- Patients -- Services for -- Malta
Older people -- Diseases
Issue Date: 2010
Citation: Vassallo B. (2010). A needs assessment in dementia. (Master's dissertation).
Abstract: Background The identification of the actual level of need in the elderly with dementia, and the degree to which it is unmet, is necessary to plan services. This study evaluates the needs of dementia patients living in the community and attending the day hospital service at Zammit Clapp Hospital in Malta and whether their needs are met or unmet. Methodology Fifty community-dwelling patients with ICD-1 0 diagnosis of dementia were assessed on The Care Needs Assessment Pack for Dementia (CareNap-D). Data on needs across seven domains (health and mobility, self-care and toileting, social interaction, thinking and memory, behaviour and mental state, house care, community living) was collected by survey method, the results of which are presented in this dissertation. Results Subjects presented unmet needs of varying type and extent, across all domains, with a mean number of unmet needs of 12.33 and a range of 38. The mental health domain had the most unmet needs. A significant correlation was found between MMSE score and the total number of unmet needs, unmet needs associated with mental health and social interaction. Gender was significantly correlated with unmet needs associated with social interaction, while living alone was significantly correlated with unmet needs associated with health and mobility. Conclusion This needs assessment highlights the degree of unmet need in a group of older persons with dementia living in the community. Recommendations are given on a range of services that need to be developed on the basis of the actual needs that were identified.
Description: M.SC.HEALTH SERVICES MANGT.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42851
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