Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Perceptions and Experiences of Dementia Care Mapping “Mappers” in the United States and the United Kingdom

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Monitoring and improving the quality of person-centred care in health and social settings using Dementia Care Mapping (DCM): Staff experiences of implementation barriers and supports

“…As with a previous surveys of DCM users (21), this study found that a number of those trained do not go on to use DCM afterwards. This study showed a slightly higher percentage of respondents who had used DCM (60%) than in previous studies (50% in UK and 30% in US).…”

“…Increased time and resources were identified by the vast majority of mappers as being something that would increase mapping activity in their organisation, whether or not they had previously mapped, indicating that this remains an issue even in settings where mapping does occur. A lack of time and resources is commonly cited within health and social care as a barrier to delivery of person-centred care and to the utilisation of quality monitoring and improvement tools and processes (21). This study shows that despite limited resources some organisations are able to support regular DCM activity.…”

“…The findings of two existing surveys of DCM users conducted in the late 2000s, in the UK (n=79) and the US (n=82) (21) found that around 30% of basic level users in the US and 50% in the UK had mapped since training. The key challenges to use of mapping in practice by respondents in both countries were a lack of time, lack of organisational backing and issues with delays in being able to conduct feedback sessions with the staff team.…”

Implementing Dementia Care Mapping to develop person‐centred care: results of a process evaluation within the Leben‐QD II trial

“…() observed the importance of the commitment of team managers and Douglass et al . () identified organisational backing as a facilitator of DCM implementation. Scurfield‐Walton () argued that isolated DCM interventions will not be able to implement PCC and that DCM needs to be integrated using a precise implementation plan that considers aspects of team development.…”

The intersection of culture in the provision of dementia care: A systematic review

“…Person‐centred care is based on the concept of personhood, “a socially created entity established through the action of others” (Douglass, Keddie, Brooker, & Surr, , p.568). Person‐centred care is the maintenance of an individual's personhood, through the context of personal and social relationships (Kitwood, ).…”