Home health care of Iranian elderly with dementia: Study protocol for guideline adaptation
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2 Student Research Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
3 Mental Health Research Center, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: Advanced stages of dementia interfere with elderly self‑care. Consequently, theyneed caregivers who take responsibility for their care in the long‑term. Restrictions to the caregiver’saccess to information, resources, and organizational support have created problems in their caregiverrole, which is why the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes caring for caregivers by providingevidence‑based information and training programs. As there is no clinical practice guideline for homecare in the Islamic Republic of Iran, this study aims to develop a home health care guideline for theelderly with dementia.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The ADAPTE process provided by the Guidelines InternationalNetwork was considered as the basis. In order to identify the care needs of Iranian patients withdementia, semi‑structured interviews were added to this guideline.DISCUSSION: The identification and implementation of the perspectives of patients and caregiversduring the process of guidelines adaptation increase the applicability of the guidelines. Improvedquality of life for the patients in their place of residence is one of the expected consequences of thisguideline’s implementation. The developed guidelines will be used at home health care centers, anddementia and Alzheimer’s associations in Iran.
