The investigators want to evaluate the use of video-conference in the collaboration between the investigators psychogeriatric department and nursing homes. The study aim is to give supervision on a regular basis to the caregivers on a special care unit for patients with dementia with behavioural disturbances during a period of half a year. The investigators want to investigate the impact on caregivers and patients by applying certain tests at baseline, during the intervention and half a year after the intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
The investigators will use video-conference for supervising and training of staff members in nursing homes
Sykehuset Innlandet HF
Reinsvoll, Norway
Neuropsychiatric inventory - nursing home version (NPI-NH)
The investigators want to find out if a supervision of staff members over a six months time, using video-conference technic, contributes to improvement in patients' behaviour registered by NPI-NH
Time frame: week 48
Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) Person centered care assessment tool (P-CAT)
Measures the effect of our intervention related to apply person centred dementia care
Time frame: week 48
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