Projects per year
Abstract
Methods: We comprehensively searched Medline and twelve further databases, plus bibliographies, for intervention studies with ≥3 cognitively impaired adult participants (any type/stage). The review was conducted with service user input in accordance with Cochrane Collaboration’s guidelines. We duplicated assessment of inclusion, data extraction, and validity assessment, tabulating data. Meta-analysis (statistical pooling) was not appropriate so data were tabulated and synthesised narratively.
Results. We included 56 interventions (reported in 51 studies). Studies were small and there were no clearly effective, or clearly ineffective, interventions. Promising interventions included: eating meals with care-givers, family style meals, soothing mealtime music, constantly accessible snacks and longer mealtimes, education and support for formal and informal care-givers, spaced retrieval and Montessori activities, facilitated breakfast clubs, multisensory exercise and multicomponent interventions.
Conclusions. We found no definitive evidence on effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness, of specific interventions but studies were small and short term. A variety of promising indirect interventions need to be tested in large, high-quality RCTs, and may be approaches that people with dementia and their formal or informal care-givers would wish to try.
Systematic review registration: The systematic review protocol was registered (CRD42014007611) and is published, with the full MEDLINE search strategy, on Prospero.[1]
Original language | English |
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Article number | 89 |
Journal | BMC Geriatrics |
Volume | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 May 2016 |
Keywords
- Dementia
- Aged
- Eating
- Drinking
- meta-analysis
- Diet
- malnutrition
- DEHYDRATION
Profiles
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Diane Bunn
- School of Health Sciences - Lecturer in Health Sciences
- Volunteering and Health and Social Care - Member
- UEA Hydrate Group - Member
- Health Promotion - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Chris Fox
- Norwich Medical School - Honorary Professorial Fellow, Christopher
- Institute for Volunteering Research - Member
- Norwich Epidemiology Centre - Member
- Mental Health - Member
Person: Honorary, Other related - academic, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member
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Lee Hooper
- Norwich Medical School - Reader
- UEA Hydrate Group - Member
- Epidemiology and Public Health - Member
- Health Services and Primary Care - Member
- Public Health and Health Services Research - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
Projects
- 2 Finished
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CLAHRC - Eating and Drinking in Dementia (linked to R22140)
Hooper, L., Fox, C., Hooper, L., Killett, A., Potter, J., Abdelhamid, A. & Bunn, D.
National Institute for Health Research
22/01/14 → 31/01/15
Project: Research
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Development of a Simple Tool for Diagnosis of Impending Water-Loss Dehydration in the Community
National Institute for Health Research
1/01/12 → 31/03/15
Project: Fellowship
Research output
- 46 Citations (Scopus)
- 1 Article
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Effectiveness of interventions to directly support food and drink intake in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis
Abdelhamid, A., Bunn, D. K., Copley, M., Cowap, V., Dickinson, A., Gray, L., Howe, A., Killett, A., Lee, J., Li, F., Poland, F., Potter, J. F., Richardson, K., Smithard, D., Fox, G. & Hooper, L., 22 Jan 2016, In: BMC Geriatrics. 16, 18 p., 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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