Imagine trying to comfort someone who can no longer speak or move, where even basic care feels like a struggle. This project creates a toolkit for nursing homes to provide better emotional and physical comfort for people with severe dementia. It helps staff move beyond just feeding and cleaning to actually improving the patient's daily happiness and helping families plan for the future.
Nursing homes struggle to provide more than basic physical care for advanced dementia patients, leading to low quality of life and family anxiety. There is a lack of standardized, cost-effective tools to manage these complex emotional and social needs.
A multi-component palliative care intervention including scientific SOPs and a digital 'Dementia Palliative care helix' on the CHX platform.
If you are a private nursing home chain dealing with low quality of life and high agitation in advanced dementia patients — this project developed a multi-component intervention that improves comfort and social engagement. This allows your facilities to offer a higher standard of end-of-life care.
If you are a software provider dealing with the lack of structured palliative care planning — this project developed the Dementia Palliative care helix on the CHX platform. You can integrate these evidence-based decision support tools into your digital care records.
If you are a training agency dealing with care staff who struggle to provide more than basic needs — this project developed a set of SOPs and a validated intervention. You can use these to certify nursing homes in a cost-effective, evidence-based care model.
Based on available project data, the project specifically includes a work package to understand the cost-effectiveness of the intervention, though specific pricing is not yet listed.
Yes, the project is testing the intervention in 56 nursing care homes across 7 different countries to ensure it works in various settings.
Based on available project data, the project is developing a plan for result dissemination and exploitation, including a 'live' helix on the CHX platform.
The intervention is designed to be ethically sound and follows scientific protocols and ethical approvals to meet high standards of end-of-life care.
The project period runs from 2024-01-01 to 2028-12-31, suggesting full validation will be complete by the end of 2028.
The consortium is heavily academic, with 11 universities and 1 research institution, indicating a strong focus on clinical validation. However, the inclusion of 1 industry partner and 1 SME, alongside a presence in 10 countries, suggests a strategic intent to move the results from the lab into real-world care home operations.
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