Journal article
TRANSLATING EVIDENCE-BASED DEMENTIA CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS AND FAMILIES INTO PRACTICE: COPE CT STUDY
Innovation in aging, v 1(Suppl 1), pp 95-95
30 Jun 2017
Abstract
This symposium contributes new knowledge to current efforts to successfully translate evidence-based interventions into existing home and community-based service settings for older adults with dementia and their family caregivers. We report on several aspects of the ongoing COPE CT study, which incorporates and evaluates implementation of the evidence-based Care of Persons with Dementia in their Environments (COPE) intervention into Connecticut’s Medicaid waiver and state-funded homecare program for older adults. In COPE, occupational therapists teach family caregivers problem solving skills for managing dementia-related symptoms and their own stress, and nurses assess persons with dementia for underlying medical conditions that may affect function and behavior. In the COPE CT randomized trial, COPE services are added or not added to existing homecare service plans for older adults with dementia and their family caregivers (dyads). In this symposium, Fortinsky will first explain the COPE CT translational study design and report findings to date regarding enrolled dyad characteristics and clinical findings from COPE interventionists. Piersol will then explain the principles and components of COPE, and how its fidelity is monitored in the COPE CT study. Molony will then provide perspectives from care management organizations responsible for coordinating publicly-funded homecare services. Robison will then report focus group findings regarding home care program care managers’ experiences incorporating COPE into daily practice. Pizzi will then report findings from economic impact analysis data. Discussant Gitlin will comment on study implications for efforts elsewhere translating evidence-based interventions for this growing target population into homecare practice and policies.
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- Title
- TRANSLATING EVIDENCE-BASED DEMENTIA CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS AND FAMILIES INTO PRACTICE: COPE CT STUDY
- Creators
- R.H. Fortinsky - University of ConnecticutL.N. Gitlin - Johns Hopkins University
- Publication Details
- Innovation in aging, v 1(Suppl 1), pp 95-95
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991020112214804721