Browsing by Author "Garrod, Lucy"
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing dementia care mapping in care homes: results from the DCM™ EPIC trial process evaluation
Garrod, Lucy; Perfect, Devon (2019-02)Background: Psychosocial person-centred interventions are considered best practice for addressing complex behaviours and care needs such as agitation and anxiety, and for improving the quality of life of people with ... -
Evaluating dementia training for healthcare staff
Garrod, Lucy; Fossey, Jane; Williamson, Sandra; Coates, Alice; Henshall, Catherine; Green, Helen (2019-04)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a service evaluation of a competency-based dementia training programme for clinicians to establish its value in improving their knowledge and confidence of dementia ... -
Impact of person-centred care training and person-centred activities on quality of life, agitation, and antipsychotic use in people with dementia living in nursing homes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Romeo, Renee; Garrod, Lucy; Fossey, Jane (2018-02-06)Agitation is a common, challenging symptom affecting large numbers of people with dementia and impacting on quality of life (QoL). There is an urgent need for evidence-based, cost-effective psychosocial interventions to ... -
Improving mental health and reducing antipsychotic use in people with dementia in care homes: the WHELD research programme including two RCTs
Fossey, Jane; Garrod, Lucy; Stafford, Jane; McLaughlin, Eddie (2020-07)Background The effective management of agitation and other neuropsychiatric and behavioural symptoms in people with dementia is a major challenge, particularly in care home settings, where dementia severity is higher and ... -
A qualitative analysis of trainer/coach experiences of changing care home practice in the Well-being and Health in Dementia randomised control trial
Fossey, Jane; Garrod, Lucy (2018-04-26)Objectives This study explored the experiences of a range of health and social care professionals employed in the role of trainer/coaches to support care home staff to implement a psychosocial intervention for residents ... -
“We should see her like part of the team”: an investigation into care home staff’s experiences of being part of an RCT of a complex psychosocial intervention
Fossey, Jane; Garrod, Lucy (2018-12)To contribute to improvements in the design and delivery of intervention research in care homes by adopting a collaborative approach that listens to the experiences of care home staff who had participated in a clinical ... -
What influences the sustainability of an effective psychosocial intervention for people with dementia living in care homes? A 9 to 12-month follow-up of the perceptions of staff in care homes involved in the wheld randomised controlled trail
Fossey, Jane; Garrod, Lucy (2019-03)The study aims to understand the factors that care home staff felt enabled or hindered them in continuing to use the well-being and health for people with dementia (WHELD) psychosocial approach in their care home and ... -
The WHELD programme: showing the benefits
Garrod, Lucy; Fossey, Jane (2019-01)The WHELD study demonstrates that with support home care teams can incorporate into practice a focused approach to person centred care, augmented with other therapeutic elements of personalised social activities and ...