Healthcare professionals may improve palliative care for residents with
advanced dementia by improving communication with residents' caregivers, a
recent study found.
Researchers also discovered a correlation between the trust caregivers
had in the healthcare team and positive care outcomes for the residents with
dementia.
More than 200 family caregivers of those with dementia across 25 nursing
homes participated in the study. It looked at the associations between trust and
areas such as family caregiver satisfaction, involvement in care, care burden
and patients' symptom burden.
Higher trust was significantly associated with better outcomes. The
positive care outcomes included higher family satisfaction and positive evaluations
of physician-family communication.
The majority of participants trusted physicians, nurses and nurses'
aides at a moderate-to-high level. One-third of participants trusted the
healthcare professional at a moderate-to-low level.
Source: McKnights.com, Alyssa Salela
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