Effects of non-facilitated meaningful activities for people with dementia in long-term care facilities: A systematic review

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Jones, C
Liu, DF
Murfield, MJ
Moyle, PW
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This systematic review sought to evaluate the effectiveness of non-facilitated meaningful activities for older people with dementia in long-term care facilities. Searches were conducted in PubMed; CINAHL; EMBASE; Web of science; PsycINFO; Cochrane; ProQuest; and ClinicalTrials.gov to identify articles published between January 2004 and October 2019. A total of six studies were included. Results implied that current randomised controlled trials or controlled trials about non-facilitated meaningful activities for people with living dementia in long-term care facilitates are limited, but those included in this review were of adequate methodological quality. Meaningful non-facilitated activities, such as music, stimulated family presence, animal-like social robot PARO/plush toy and lifelike dolls, may have beneficial effects on agitation, emotional well-being, feelings of pleasure, engagement, and sleep quality. However, there remains a lack of conclusive and robust evidence to support these psychological and physiological effects of non-facilitated meaningful activities for older people with dementia living in long-term care facilities by care staff.

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Geriatric Nursing

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© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Nursing

Dementia

Long-term care

Meaningful activities

Non-facilitated

Older people

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Jones, C; Liu, DF; Murfield, MJ; Moyle, PW, Effects of non-facilitated meaningful activities for people with dementia in long-term care facilities: A systematic review, Geriatric Nursing, 2020

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