Interprofessional Work Model for Dementia Care in Hospitals for Community-Based Care

Kenji Hamabata,Keiko Sekido,Hideyuki Shiotani

doi:10.4236/health.2020.1212112

Abstract

In this manuscript the authors have studied interprofessional work model for dementia care in hospitals for community-based care. As present situations and problems of dementia patients in hospitals for community-based care, 8 core categories (19 categories) were extracted and as actual situations of interprofessional work for dementia care, 8 core categories (13 categories) were obtained. The authors examined a function of interprofessional work model and practice contents using these categories. The results revealed that better interprofessional work can be expected by six specialists of nurses rehabilitation specialists, MSW, pharmacists, dietitians and care workers developing dementia care based on “Family handling function” “ADL maintenance and improved function” “Staff member education and empowerment function”.

Highlights

According to the information data of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications [1], the population of elderly in Japan as of 2020 is 36,170,000 and the ratio among the total population became 28.7%
The authors examined a function of interprofessional work model and practice contents using these categories
The results revealed that better interprofessional work can be expected by six specialists of nurses rehabilitation specialists, MSW, pharmacists, dietitians and care workers developing dementia care based on “Family handling function” “ADL maintenance and improved function” “Staff member education and empowerment function”

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Introduction

According to the information data of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications [1], the population of elderly in Japan as of 2020 is 36,170,000 and the ratio among the total population became 28.7%. In the local multi-job-title collaboration, medical social workers (hereinafter called MSW) and care managers arrange home care service that enables patients to return home and resume daily life. In this way, multi-professional collaboration is essential for hospitals for community-based care, and its role in support for patients who wish to return home is important. When acquiring the addition, dementia patients needing care accounts for a half or more for Dementia Care Addition I, and the ratio of dementia patient is to be more than 30% to acquire the addition for nursing staff night assignment In this way, since the hospitals for community-based care were launched in 2014, actual scenes of discharge support for dementia patients and their families presumably have become complicated. This study analyzed the present situations and problems of the dementia elderly hospitalized in wards for community-based care and the qualitative data collected from reality of collaboration and cooperation for dementia elderly care, aiming at clarifying interprofessional work model for dementia care

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