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Effects of Dementia Care Mapping on well‐being and quality of life of older people with intellectual disability: A quasi‐experimental study
Author(s) -
Schaap Feija D.,
Dijkstra Geke J.,
Stewart Roy E.,
Finnema Evelyn J.,
Reijneveld Sijmen A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/jar.12576
Subject(s) - intellectual disability , dementia , quality of life (healthcare) , gerontology , older people , psychology , intellectual impairment , intellectual ability , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , disease , pathology , psychotherapist
Background The ageing of people with intellectual disability, accompanied with consequences like dementia, challenges intellectual disability‐care staff and creates a need for supporting methods, with Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) as a promising possibility. This study examined the effect of DCM on the quality of life of older people with intellectual disability. Methods We performed a quasi‐experimental study in 23 group homes for older people with intellectual disability in the Netherlands, comparing DCM ( n = 113) with care‐as‐usual (CAU; n = 111). Using three measures, we assessed the staff‐reported quality of life of older people with intellectual disability. Results DCM achieved no significantly better or worse quality of life than CAU. Effect sizes varied from 0.01 to −0.22. Adjustments for covariates and restriction of analyses to people with dementia yielded similar results. Conclusion The finding that DCM does not increase quality of life of older people with intellectual disability contradicts previous findings and deserves further study.