University of South Florida
The palliative care education in assisted living for dementia care providers (PCEAL-DCP) is a 4-week intervention (once a week for 1.5 hours, a total of 6 hours) for licensed nurses, administrators and dementia care coordinators to improve quality of dementia care outcomes
This is a five-year cluster randomized trial (CRT) among 30 assisted living (AL) communities (k=30) and residents (N=450), staff (N=72) and family members (N=270) with a baseline, 3, and 6 months post-intervention follow-ups for residents, a baseline and 6-month follow-up for family and a pre- and post-test (one month), 3- and 6-month follow-up for staff and baseline AL facility information from administrators to examine dementia care outcomes.
Inclusion Criteria: The AL community eligibility criteria include a minimum of 40+ beds and provide memory care services to at least 35% of their residents, and access to hospice services from Lifepath or Suncoast Hospice. The AL size of 40+ beds is selected so we will be able to recruit a minimum of 14 residents per site, based on the power analysis for the sample size of 450 for the primary study outcome of documentation of ACP discussions. Residents are eligible if 1) they have a dementia diagnosis confirmed by the resident's physician (physician's signature required by University of Sout…
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