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Brief title
Health condition
Nursing residents with chronic illnesses, such as dementia, somatic complaints and other age-related diseases are included.
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Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
- Aspects of daily life (activities, physical activity, mood et cetera)
- Experiences of residents, informal caregivers and long-term care staff concerning the relocation
- Overview of procedures followed during the relocation
Secondary outcome
- Cognitive functioning
- ADL functioning
- Mood
Background summary
Residents of nursing homes or assisted living facilities have to relocate more often nowadays. This trend has several causes. Traditional buildings are partly outdated and do no longer meet the demands of today. Long-term care organizations therefore often choose to reconstruct locations or built new facilities. This enables them to provide better care and support to residents and their relatives. This leads to the reconstruction of traditional nursing homes to innovative long-term care facilities, such as green care farms or small-scale living, which use a person-centered approach to facilitate quality of life. At this moment, it is not clear what the impact of a relocation is on residents within long-term care. In particular, knowledge about the impact and experience of a relocation to an innovative care concept on older people, relatives and long-term care staff is missing. This study intends to gain insight into the experiences and impact of a relocation to an innovative care concept on residents, relatives and personnel and intends to compare this to relocations within the traditional long-term care.
This study aims to gain insight into the experiences with and impact of relocations to innovative long-term care facilities and how these differ from relocations to traditional long-term care facilities. We will use an observational design, in which relocations will be monitored. Interviews, questionnaires and document-analyses will be performed combined with observations of daily lives of residents. The study will include locations that plan a relocation, either to an innovative or traditional long-term care facility. During this relocation, we will follow the residents, their relatives and long-term care staff four weeks before relocating, two weeks after relocating and six months after relocating. During these measurements, the daily functioning of residents will be measured through observations and questionnaires. Furthermore, two weeks after the relocation interviews will be carried out with residents, their relatives and employees to measure their experiences with the relocation. Locations will be recruited through the academic networks of long-term care (including the AWO-L) or through own registration.
Study objective
The main goal of this project is to gain insight into the experiences with and impact of relocations to innovative long-term care facilities in residents and their informal caregivers.
Two research questions will be addressed:
1. What are the experiences of residents, informal caregivers, long-term care staff and the management concerning relocations to innovative long-term care facilities compared to relocations from a traditional to another traditional long-term care facility?
2. What are the effects of relocations to innovative long-term care facilities on residents and their informal caregivers compared to relocations from a traditional to another traditional long-term care facility?
Study design
Four weeks before relocating, two weeks after relocating, 6 months after relocating
Inclusion criteria
Within the facility, three participant groups will be approached for participation, who will have to meet the following criteria:
- Residents that are relocating to an innovative or traditional care facility and have filled in an informed consent form (either signed by the resident him/herself or the informal caregiver). All residents of 60 years or older, including those with somatic symptoms or dementia, will be approached to participate in this study.
- The informal caregivers of the residents that are relocating and have filled in the informed consent form.
- The long-term care staff/management that are supervising and planning the relocation to an innovative or traditional long-term care facility.
Exclusion criteria
- Residents that are not relocating
- Residents younger than 60, without the need of 24-hour care and/or ADL assistance
- Residents who receive end-of-life care
- Informal caregivers that do not have a resident that is relocating
- Long-term care staff/management that are not involved in the planning of the relocation and are not relocating alongside the residents.
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL9618 |
| Other | METC Z : METCZ20210065 |