Quality Improvement in Neurology: Dementia Management Quality Measures (Executive Summary) | Zendy

Germaine L. Odenheimer | Zendy; Soo Borson | Zendy; Amy E. Sanders | Zendy; Rebecca J. SwainEng | Zendy; Helen H. Kyomen | Zendy; Samantha Tierney | Zendy; Laura N. Gitlin | Zendy; Mary Ann Forciea | Zendy; John R. Absher | Zendy; Joseph W. Shega | Zendy; Jerry Johnson | Zendy

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Quality Improvement in Neurology: Dementia Management Quality Measures (Executive Summary)

Author(s) -

Germaine L. Odenheimer,

Soo Borson,

Amy E. Sanders,

Rebecca J. SwainEng,

Helen H. Kyomen,

Samantha Tierney,

Laura N. Gitlin,

Mary Ann Forciea,

John R. Absher,

Joseph W. Shega,

Jerry Johnson

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

american journal of occupational therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1943-7676

pISSN - 0272-9490

DOI - 10.5014/ajot.2013.676004

Subject(s) - dementia , multidisciplinary approach , psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , medline , quality (philosophy) , palliative care , quality management , relevance (law) , work (physics) , medicine , nursing , disease , computer science , social science , philosophy , management system , management , epistemology , pathology , sociology , political science , law , economics , programming language , mechanical engineering , engineering

This article represents the efforts of an interdisciplinary work group, the Dementia Measures Work Group (DWG), composed of representatives of diverse national organizations who convened specifically to define optimal standards of dementia care for individual practitioners as well as multidisciplinary teams. The DWG measurement set includes all stages of dementia in a single measure set, calls for the use of functional staging in planning care, prompts the use of validated instruments in patient and caregiver assessment and intervention, highlights the relevance of using palliative care concepts to guide care prior to the advanced stages of illness, and provides evidence-based support for its recommendations and guidance on the selection of instruments for tracking patient-centered outcomes. In addition, it specifies annual reassessment and updating of interventions and care plans for dementia-related problems that affect families and other caregivers as well as patients.

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