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Adaptation and validation of the Person‐centered Care Assessment Tool (P‐CAT) t...
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Teixeira, L.; Edvardsson, David; Paúl, Constança; Yanguas, Javier; Afonso, Rosa MarinaBackground: The relevance of person-centred care as an optimising approach to the quality of care provided to older adults has sparked the development of important instruments that measure this approach at residential care facilities and requires vali-dation for the Portuguese population.Objectives: This study aims to adapt and validate the Person-centered Care Assessment Tool (P-CAT) to the Portuguese populati...
Clinical Impact of Music Interventions in Dementia: literature review: Clinical...
Tinoco, Bárbara; Afonso, Rosa Marina; Vaz Patto, Maria da AssunçãoThis is an integrated review of the literature on the effects of music interventions in dementia. The results suggest an overall positive impact of music interventions in people with dementia and their families and caregivers, particularly in the dimensions: cognition, behavior, mood, emotions, quality of life, well-being, pain, biomedical parameters and caregiver burden. However, the lack of methodologically c...
Person-Centered Care for Older Adults at Residential Care Facilities in the Ibe...
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Dias, Inês Ferreira; Nwaru, Bright; Paúl, Constança; Yanguas, Javier; Afonso, Rosa MarinaThe aging of a population leads to a higher need for gerontological care. Person-centered care for older adults (PCCOA) offers a higher standard of quality at residential care facilities (RCFs). This systematic review is aimed at synthesizing Portuguese and Spanish studies on PCCOA, describing the process of implementation of PCCOA; exploring the impact of interventions based on PCCOA and determining the measur...
Caring and Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of Portuguese Resi...
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Teixeira, Laetitia; Paúl, Constança; Yanguas, Javier; Afonso, Rosa MarinaResidential care facilities (RCF) for older people are facing high demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the workers’ perspectives on the changes in work and care dynamics amidst the first wave of the pandemic at Portuguese RCF. This is a descriptive, quantitative, and cross-sectional study. An online questionnaire about pandemic-induced changes in work and care dynamics was...
Cognitive decline complaints scale (CDCS): validation and normative studies for...
Frias, Joana Rita; Nogueira, Joana; Gerardo, Bianca; Afonso, Rosa Marina; Freitas, SandraObjectives: Subjective Cognitive Complaints, which result from the self-perception of Subjective Cognitive Decline, are frequently reported by older adults. The Cognitive Decline Complaints Scale (CDCS) assesses subjective complaints of cognitive decline in several cognitive domains through three levels of severity. This study aims to psychometrically validate this instrument considering the Classical Test Theo...
Staff Assessment Person-Directed Care Questionnaire: Adaptation and Validation ...
Barbosa, Maria M.; Teixeira, L.; Yanguas, Javier; Paúl, Constança; Afonso, Rosa MarinaPerson-centered care aims to increase and guarantee the quality of care at residential care facilities for older adults. The implementation and development of this approach requires validated assessment tools, which are still lacking in Portugal. This study aims to adapt and validate for the Portuguese population the internationally and widely used essential instrument that is the Staff Assessment Person-Direct...
From the drama of unoccupied time and isolation due to Covid-19’s pandemic to t...
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Paúl, Constança; Teixeira, L.; Yanguas, Javier; Afonso, Rosa MarinaDuring the pandemic, restrictive measures were implemented at Portuguese residential care facilities (PRCF), such as isolating residents and ceasing collective activities. It is important to understand how PRCF are implementing activities that allow residents to occupy their time and fight isolation. As such, we aim to analyze whether: 1. new activities were implemented for residents (identifying which were car...
Sexual expression involving people with dementia living in long‐term care facil...
Fonseca, Maria Isabel; Almeida, Daniela; Martins, Ana Paula; Cerqueira, Margarida; Villar, Feliciano; Oliveira, José Martinez de; Afonso, Rosa MarinaThis study aims to explore and compare the reaction of long-term care staff towards situations of sexual intercourse in which one or both partners have dementia. Participants were 538 staff members at 28 Portuguese long-term care facilities. Data were collected using a printed questionnaire with seven vignettes with situations related to the sexuality of LTCF residents. In this study, three of these vignettes w...
Cuidados centrados na pessoa idosa: Uma abordagem de promoção de direitos
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Guimarães, Paula; Afonso, Rosa Marina; Yanguas, Javier; Paúl, ConstançaA necessidade massificada de cuidados gerontológicos, impelida pelo envelhecimento populacional, fomentou a proliferação de instituições residenciais com serviços assistencialistas focados na eficiência procedimental. Estes cuidados uniformizados apresentam sinais de esgotamento e impactos negativos nas pessoas idosas, nomeadamente na violação dos seus direitos e desvalorização da sua autodeterminação. O cumpri...
Cuidados centrados na pessoa idosa: aceções e aplicações práticas em estruturas...
Barbosa, Maria Miguel; Paúl, Constança; Yanguas, Javier; Afonso, Rosa MarinaO envelhecimento populacional gerou uma crescente necessidade de serviços formais para pessoas idosas em situação de dependência. Esta revisão pretende explorar a evolução/tendências dos cuidados gerontológicos em instituições residenciais e descrever diferentes aceções e aplicações da Atenção Centrada na Pessoa neste contexto. Da pesquisa efetuada em inglês, espanhol e português, nas bases de dados EBSCO– PSY/...