REDESIGNING HOSPITAL WORKFLOW TO INCLUDE FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
Catherine Still, Andrea Yahr, Kathryn Istvanek, Andrea Strayer, Nicole Werner, Beth Fields · 2023
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Catherine Still and co-authors map how hospitals could fold family caregivers into dementia care, in this 2023 study. Caregivers of hospitalized people with dementia often leave the hospital unready for the care tasks waiting at home. Clinicians, in turn, lack a guide for bringing caregivers into the workflow, so the team watched real hospital work to find the best pattern.
They logged twenty-eight hours of observation at a large academic hospital and recorded team debriefs. A work-system model shaped the maps they drew for admission, the stay, and discharge. Helpful traits included staff who answered questions well and record fields built for family teaching. Blocks included patchy documentation, wasted common spaces, and a passive stance toward caregivers. The maps now offer clinicians a target workflow to test.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Catherine Still, Andrea Yahr, Kathryn Istvanek, Andrea Strayer, Nicole Werner, Beth Fields |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |