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Core Outcome Measurements for Quality of Dementia Care: a rapid review
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Core Outcome Measurements for Quality of Dementia Care: a rapid review

Hanh Dao, Danelle Kenny, Alyssa Welch, Karyn Lendich, Debbie Britain and Tracy Comans
ICN Congress 2025 Helsinki: Nursing Power To Change The World (Helsinki, Finland , 09/06/2025–13/06/2025)
08/06/2025

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Abstract

Aged care nursing Health services and systems
This study aimed to identify validated scales to measure core outcomes for the quality of dementia care in-home care and residential aged care. Methods: Searches were conducted on PubMed, Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL (Ebscohost), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), Web of Science (Clarivate), and Scopus (Elsevier) for peer-reviewed systematic reviews and/or validation studies of the scales used on people with dementia. The searches were completed on the 12th July 2024. Study screening and data extraction were conducted. Identified scales were described. Reserach was conducted in collaboration with people and with dementia and informal and formal carers. Recommendations: More work is needed for validated scales to measure dignity, engagement in advance care planning, feeling safe and secure, hygiene, safety incidents, the importance of relationships for people with dementia, dementia-specific qualifications, and educational opportunities for carers of people with dementia. Conclusion: 88 validated scales are available for measuring pain, quality of life, emotional well-being, diagnosis of dementia, behavioural symptoms of dementia, meaningful activities, comfort and resource utilisation for people living with dementia and quality of life for informal carers of people with dementia.

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