Samenwerking tussen woonzorgcentra en voorzieningen voor personen met verstandelijke beperkingen

Abstract

Considering the increasing life expectancy of people with intellectual disabilities (ID), the importance of cooperation between services for people with ID and elderly care services has been stressed in Flanders and the Netherlands, as well as internationally. However, the prevalence, intensity and content of such a cooperation are yet unknown. In order to gain information to address this issue, an online-survey was delivered to directors of all nursing homes in Flanders (n = 781). 229 surveys were completed.In more than 75% of the nursing homes, people with ID were among the residents over the past decade. However, at the same time a lack of expertise has been identified as a barrier to provide them optimal care and support. Hence, the respondents point out that a cooperation with ID care services could be beneficial. Nevertheless, those partnerships only arose in a quarter of the nursing homes so far, primarily for the purpose of exchange of expertise. Intersectoral multidisciplinary consultations and intersectoral care team consultations have been taking place as well, be it mainly in the context of a persons' transition from an ID care service to a nursing home. Until now, radical cooperations which involve an exchange of staff, seem to be rather rare.

Integrated Emotion‐Oriented Care for Older People With ID: Defining and Understanding Intervention Components of a Person‐Centered Approach

“…When it comes to the support of older people with ID, there is still a lack of evidence-base (Innes & McCabe, 2012;Schaap et al, 2018) which is a particular cause for concern when enabling support staff in maintaining high-quality care (Cleary & Doodey, 2016;Iacono, Bigby, Carling-Jenkins, & Torr, 2014;Janicki & Keller, 2012). Against this background, evidence-based practices from standard geriatric or dementia care, such as Integrated Emotion-Oriented Care (IEOC), could also be useful in the care for older people with ID (Campens et al, 2017). However, its intervention components and its application for older people with ID (i.e., descriptive evidence) had yet to be systematically analyzed.…”

“…IEOC has proved effective in the care for people with mild/moderate dementia and implementation of IEOC resulted in an increase in caregiver knowledge and skills in the field of dementia care (Finnema et al, 2005;Van der Kooij et al, 2013). Considering the increasing life expectancy of people with ID and additional physical and cognitive decline, it is not surprising that this has led to a need for adequate support and for a more integrated and person-centered approach (Campens et al, 2017), which in this case was derived from standard geriatric and dementia care.…”