Mensen met dementie en hun mantelzorgers maken veelal een langdurig en intensief zorgtraject door. Casemanagement bij dementie is bedoeld om mantelzorgers en hun naasten met dementie te ondersteunen in dit traject en het mogelijk te maken dat de persoon met dementie zo lang mogelijk in de eigen omgeving …

Successfully introducing care innovations depends on the type of care setting, the intervention and specific circumstances. In this study the factors influencing the introduction of an evidence based nursing guideline on depression in psychogeriatric nursing home residents were studied.

We thank the authors Hayden and Glenn for commenting on our paper ‘The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: Effects on Certified Nurse Assistants’, which was published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (Verkaik et al., 2011). In our paper …