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Effective Dementia Education and Training for the Health and Social Care Workforce: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Yes / Ensuring an informed and effective dementia workforce is of international concern; however, there remains limited understanding of how this can be achieved. This review aimed to identify features of effective dementia educational programs. Critical interpretive synthesis underpinned by Kirkpatrick’s return on investment model was applied. One hundred and fifty-two papers of variable quality were included. Common features of more efficacious educational programs included the need for educational programs to be relevant to participants’ role and experience, involve active face-to-face participation, underpin practice-based learning with theory, be delivered by an experienced facilitator, have a total duration of at least 8 hours with individual sessions of 90 minutes or more, support application of learning in practice, and provide a structured tool or guideline to guide care practice. Further robust research is required to develop the evidence base; however, the findings of this review have relevance for all working in workforce education.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/12961
Date31 July 2017
CreatorsSurr, Claire A., Gates, C., Irving, Donna, Oyebode, Jan, Smith, Sarah J., Parveen, Sahdia, Drury, Michelle, Dennison, Alison
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Published version
Rights© 2017 AERA. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license (https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), CC-BY

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