Support during dementia

The project includes two municipalities and aims to use a person-centered multidimensional support program to support and / or improve a sense of context and thus experienced quality of life for people living at home with dementia and provide support to their relatives. The study's intervention aims to improve the sense of coherence, to make people with dementia feel quality of life and to improve the knowledge of staff about people in the early stages of dementia within the municipality. The intervention is the PER- model®, ie Pedagogical, Emotional and Relationship-building support for people with mild to moderate dementia and their relatives. The PER-model® provides relatives with educational tools, emotional support and builds a relationship with the couple to cope with the situation at home and contributes to a higher sense of context in people with dementia. The study consists of several parts; workshops with relevant staff on the planned intervention. Thereafter, support groups are started up where the effect of the intervention is followed up through a quantitative and a qualitative part. The quantitative part consists of a survey regarding a sense of context (Sense of Coherence, SOC, Swedish version). The SOC survey is conducted before the intervention begins and is then followed up each semester with a new estimate. The qualitative part consists of individual interviews with people with dementia and their relatives.