AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON INNOVATIVE CARE CONCEPTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA

摘要

Long-term care for people with dementia is developing from a medical model towards a psychosocial model of care. There is an increased interest for aspects such as person-centered care, increasing autonomy, and involving informal caregivers in the care process. As a result, many innovative care concepts for people with dementia are developing. This symposium will describe four innovative care concepts and will provide information about their effects on people with dementia and their caregivers. The first presentation will describe how care concepts of residential care facilities contribute to the maintenance of autonomy and informal care provision for people with dementia. The second presentation will be dedicated to an innovative type of adult day services center for people with dementia, being nature-based services in urban areas. The third presentation will focus on barriers and resources for implementing green care farms for people with dementia in Northern Germany. The fourth presentation will describe whether nursing staff working at green care farms and small-scale living facilities require other competencies as nursing staff working at traditional care settings. The discussant will elaborate on these innovative care concepts from a US perspective and discuss how these approaches could be translated stateside. In addition, the discussant will look toward the future and introduce the concept of virtual care farms – a union of care farms and online communities.