The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers

摘要

>Objectives: to describe the views of healthcare workers on the facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting.>Design: thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews.>Setting: all participants were interviewed in their place of work.>Participants: sixteen healthcare workers whose daily work involves interacting with people with dementia.>Results: four overarching categories of themes were identified from the interviews that impact on communication: the attributes of a care worker, communication strategies used, organisational factors and the physical characteristics of the care environment.>Conclusion: many strategies used by healthcare workers to facilitate communication have not yet been studied in the research literature. Participants' views on training should be incorporated into future dementia training programmes.