TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Dementia Care in Assisted Living Residences
T2 - Addressing Staff Reactions to Training
AU - Teri, Linda
AU - McKenzie, Glenise L.
AU - LaFazia, David
AU - Farran, Carol J.
AU - Beck, Cornelia
AU - Huda, Piruz
AU - van Leynseele, June
AU - Pike, Kenneth C.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - More than 1 million older adults, many with significant cognitive impairment, receive care in assisted living residences (ALRs), and their numbers are increasing. Despite this, ALR staff are often inadequately trained to manage the complex emotional, behavioral, and functional impairments characteristic of these residents. Nurses are in a unique position to improve this situation by training and supervising ALR staff. To facilitate such training, an understanding of staff reactions to receiving training as well as a systematic yet flexible method for training is needed. This article provides information on one such program (STAR-Staff Training in Assisted-living Residences), discusses challenges that arose when offering this program across 3 states in 6 diverse ALRs (rural, urban, for-profit, and not-for-profit sites), and describes how these challenges were addressed. We illustrate how nurses can successfully train ALR staff to improve resident and staff outcomes and offer guidance for those interested in providing such training.
AB - More than 1 million older adults, many with significant cognitive impairment, receive care in assisted living residences (ALRs), and their numbers are increasing. Despite this, ALR staff are often inadequately trained to manage the complex emotional, behavioral, and functional impairments characteristic of these residents. Nurses are in a unique position to improve this situation by training and supervising ALR staff. To facilitate such training, an understanding of staff reactions to receiving training as well as a systematic yet flexible method for training is needed. This article provides information on one such program (STAR-Staff Training in Assisted-living Residences), discusses challenges that arose when offering this program across 3 states in 6 diverse ALRs (rural, urban, for-profit, and not-for-profit sites), and describes how these challenges were addressed. We illustrate how nurses can successfully train ALR staff to improve resident and staff outcomes and offer guidance for those interested in providing such training.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2008.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2008.07.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 19520226
AN - SCOPUS:67349280912
SN - 0197-4572
VL - 30
SP - 153
EP - 163
JO - Geriatric Nursing
JF - Geriatric Nursing
IS - 3
ER -