Dementia Care Mapping: A Review of the Research Literature
The Gerontologist
Brooker, D. (2005).
The Gerontologist, 45(Special Issue 1), 11-18.
This review investigates the effect of dementia care mapping on quality of life and quality of care in people with dementia.
Not stated
1993-March 2005
All study designs (excluding descriptive articles and dissertations)
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<div>Articles published on dementia care mapping are of variable quality, but becoming stronger. "[Dementia Care Mapping] DCM's advantages are that it is standardized, quality controlled, international, responsive to change, multidisciplinary, and has an increasing research base. DCM provides a shared language and focus across professional disciplines, care staff, and management teams" (p. 17).</div>
<div>"There is evidence to suggest that level of dependency is correlated with dementia care mapping scores, specifically that low [well- or ill-being] scores are associated with high dependency levels" (p. 15). "The evidence that dependency level skews [Dementia Care Mapping] DCM results is strong enough to suggest that a measure of dependency should be routinely taken alongside DCM evaluations so that the results can be scrutinized for this relationship" (p. 15).</div>
