Home Care Research Forum

Talks at this meeting

Developing and piloting NIDUS-professional: a group video-call training and support intervention for homecare workers for people living with dementia

Professor Claudia Cooper, University College London

Claudia Cooper described the codesign of NIDUS-professional, a six-session manualised training and support intervention for home care workers for people living with dementia. In response to the pandemic it was piloted as a group video-call intervention and successfully delivered in one agency. The intervention is now being trialled in a feasibility RCT across several agencies.

Managing challenges: home-care workers’ experiences of caring for people living with dementia

Dr Tamara Backhouse, University of East Anglia

This presentation reports findings from an interview study exploring home-care workers’ experiences of assisting people living with dementia with their personal care. The challenges home-care workers faced are examined alongside the strategies they used to manage them, as well as the underlying skills and knowledge they demonstrated in doing so.