The comparison of dementia patient's quality of life and influencing factors in two cities

Abstract

Nurses could implement interventions to focus on many of the patient's influencing factors, so that to improve their mental and physical health, which may slow the disease process and further improve the patient's quality of life. In addition, Chinese government could learn some experience from Japanese government, such as perfect the system of nursing insurance for elderly and introduce professional geriatric nursing talents to provide better service for the elderly.

The Effect of Reminiscence Therapy on Depression, Quality of Life, Ego-Integrity, Social Behavior Function, and Activies of Daily Living in Elderly Patients With Mild Dementia

“…Conducting reminiscence therapy for older people in a variety of environments (e.g., facilities, home nursing) will be very efficient. Li et al (2012) reported that effective nursing intervention is important to slow the progression of dementia and improve quality of life. Reminiscence therapy is one such effective intervention.…”

Factors influencing quality of life of elderly people with dementia and care implications: A systematic review

“…Although there are nine studies did not find any relationship between demographic characteristics and QoL (Andersen et al, 2004;Grske et al, 2014;Moyle et al, 2015;Monteiro et al, 2014;Sloane et al, 2005;Winzelberg et al, 2005;Wetzels et al, 2010;Salvador et al, 2000), other studies found that higher education (Marventano et al, 2015;Li et al, 2012), males (Woods et al, 2014;Barca et al 2011), white (Black et al, 2012), widowed (Samus et al, 2005) and extroverted characteristic (Li et al, 2012) tended to be positively associated with better QoL for elderly people with dementia. Moreover, Banerjee et al (2005) found that QoL of people with dementia showed decline as with the increasing age, while Mjørud et al (2014) indicated that the QoL was worse among the youngest (<79) and oldest (>90) people with dementia.…”

“…Four studies (Fukushima et al, 2004;Nikmat et al, 2015;Li et al, 2012;Byrne et al, 2006) explored the association between financial status and QoL for 26 elderly people with dementia, and the results suggested that financial security is a key factor in determining QoL. Additionally, quality of dementia care is also an essential factor influencing QoL.…”

“…The sample size (n=51) in one study is rather small . In conclusion, only eight quantitative studies (Li et al, 2012;Edvardsson, 2014;Marventano et al, 2015;Wetzels et al, 2010;Crespo et al, 2011;Black et al, 2012;Terada et al, 2012;Monteiro et al, 2014 ) are considered to be as high quality, which meet all the quality criteria. Five articles were considered to be low-quality articles (Altus et al, 2002;Winzelberg et al, 2005;Hodgson et al, 2014;Heggie et al, 2011;Banerjee et al, 2005), as they only meet one or two criteria (See Table 1).…”

“…In addition to physical activities, there are various factors related to physical body reported by studies. Keeping physical body safety (Beer et al, 2010;Samus et al, 2005), cleanliness (Russell et al, 2008), comfort (Silberfeld et al, 2002) and nourishment (Li et al, 2012;Russell et al, 2008) can contribute to a better QoL in elderly people with dementia. While keeping physical restrained (Beer et al, 2010) and fatigue (Silberfeld et al, 2002) predict lower QoL rating for elderly people in dementia.…”