Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Summary
- Search strategies and results
- Findings
- Predictors of care transition
- Description of care pathways
- Intervention to modify care pathways
- Care pathways of special population groups
- Recommendations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Body section
- Background
- Care transitions and care pathways
- Australian service context
- Australia’s health and aged care system
- Services for people with dementia
- Movements through the health and aged care system
- Dementia and care pathways
- Dementia and its implications for service use and care pathways
- Service use by people with dementia in Australia
- Review Approach
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Search methods
- Selection process
- Search terms that identified selected studies
- Country of origin
- Study quality
- Review of evidence
- Predictors of care transitions
- General studies of predictors of institutionalisation
- Focused studies of predictors of institutionalisation
- Dementia progression as a predictor of institutionalisation
- Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia as predictors of institutionalisation
- Caregiver and family characteristics as predictors of institutionalisation
- Service use & interventions as predictors of institutionalisation
- Predictors of care transition discussion
- Descriptions of care pathways and transitions
- Diagnosis
- Movements between care types
- End-of-life care and place of death
- Description of care pathways and transitions discussion
- Interventions to modify care transitions
- Caregiver counselling and support
- Caregiver training
- Multidisciplinary intervention
- Early intervention: family counselling and memory clinic
- Respite care
- Intervention to modify care transitions discussion
- Special population groups
- People with younger-onset dementia
- People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- People living in rural and remote areas
- Intellectual Disability and Dementia
- Special population groups discussion
- Predictors of care transitions
- Key gaps in the evidence
- Recommendations
- For practice
- For further research
- Background
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1
- Levels of evidence
- National Health & Medical Research Council designations of levels of evidence – Intervention, and prediction and prognosis studies (NHMRC 2000)
- Frameworks for assessing quality
- The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal of a Systematic Review (JBI 2000)
- Dorothy Forbes’ External, Internal, and Statistical Conclusion Validity Rating Tool (Forbes 1998)
- Checklist for appraising the quality of studies of interventions (NHMRC 2000)
- Altman’s Framework for assessing internal validity of articles dealing with prognosis (Altman, 2001)
- Angus Forbes’ Appraisal Schedule (Forbes & Griffiths, 2002)
- Levels of evidence
- Appendix 2
- Predictors of care transitions
- General studies of predictors of institutionalisation
- Focused studies of predictors of institutionalisation
- Dementia progression as a predictor of institutionalisation
- Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia as predictors of institutionalisation
- Service use and interventions as predictors of institutionalisation
- Descriptions of care pathways and transitions
- Diagnosis
- Movements between care types
- End-of-life care and place of death
- Interventions to modify care transitions
- Caregiver Counselling & Support
- Caregiver Training
- Multidisciplinary intervention
- Early intervention: family counselling and Memory Clinic
- Respite care
- Special population groups
- People with younger-onset dementia
- Predictors of care transitions
- Appendix 1
- References
- Appendixes