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Age and Ageing, Vol 29, 325-328, Copyright © 2000 by British Geriatrics Society

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The quality of residential and nursing-home care for people with dementia

P Tune and P Bowie
Upton House, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia; Division of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT, UK; Corresponding author

Objectives: to determine the environmental quality of community-based residential and nursing care for people with dementia.Design: survey of a stratified random sample of care homes.Settings: forty-six registered residential nursing homes in a single health district.Main outcome measures: scales for the assessment of environments for people with dementia, including care practices, social activities, social facilities, reality orientation cues, physical condition and space availability.Results: over 90% of the homes had high quality scores on at least two measures. Provision of reality orientation cues was usually poor. Nursing homes catering specifically for 'the elderly mentally infirm' had more restrictive care practices, whilst local-authority residential homes had a better provision of recreational facilities. Private sector homes were in much better condition than public sector homes but their care practices were more institutional - this may be related to the provision of nursing care and elderly mentally infirm care almost exclusively by the private sector.Conclusions: the environmental quality of community-based residential care is generally good, but improvements could be made, particularly with reality of orientation cues.Keywords: dementia, environment, quality of care, residential care
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