Exploring the current approach to reablement for community‐dwelling people living with dementia: preliminary practitioner‐led goals and targets for practice change
Claire O'Connor, Christopher Poulos, Susan Kurrle, Kaarin J Anstey · 2025
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Claire O'Connor and co-authors audit reablement care for people with dementia in a 2025 Australian study. Reablement uses therapy and exercise to help people keep daily skills, and a free handbook guides the approach. Yet the method is still not routine in community aged care. The team checked files from two providers in New South Wales.
Files for ten clients showed partial match with the handbook. Tailored exercise and coping strategies were in place, but written support plans were rare. Twelve allied health workers then named targets for change in focus groups. They asked for better fitting of information to each client's abilities, and for more structured checks of functional thinking. The audit feeds a larger project on spreading the handbook approach.
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| CREATOR | Claire O'Connor, Christopher Poulos, Susan Kurrle, Kaarin J Anstey |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |