Journal article
Spiritual Needs of Older Adults Living with Dementia: An Integrative Review
Healthcare (Basel), Vol.11(9), p.1319
05/04/2023
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11091319
PMCID: PMC10178032
PMID: 37174861
Abstract
Older adults living with dementia experience progressive decline, prompting reliance on others for spiritual care and support. Despite a growing interest in studying persons living with dementia (PLwDs), empirical evidence on the spiritual needs of PLwDs has not been synthesized. Using the Whittemore and Knafl method, this integrative review examined the literature from 2000 to 2022 on the spiritual care needs of PLwDs. We sought to identify characteristics of the spiritual needs of PLwDs and ways to address them. The ATLA Religion, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Socindex databases were used to search the literature, and 12 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Spiritual care needs varied across studies. Overall, findings support the importance of identifying PLwDs' religious and spiritual backgrounds to inform person-centered care. Spiritual needs were identified as verbal and non-verbal expressions related to past meaning and religious and spiritual background and were not consistently addressed in care. Providers reported observing spiritual distress in the mild stage prompting the need for spiritual care. There is a great need for dementia-specific spiritual assessment tools and spiritual care interventions to support spiritual well-being in dementia care. Spiritual care involves facilitating religious rituals and providing spiritual group therapy and religious and spiritual activities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Spiritual Needs of Older Adults Living with Dementia: An Integrative Review
- Creators
- Katherine Carroll Britt - University of PennsylvaniaAugustine C. O. Boateng - Univ Penn, Sch Nursing, Dept Biobehav Hlth Sci, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAHui Zhao - James Madison UniversityFrancesca C. Ezeokonkwo - James Madison UniversityChad Federwitz - Western Colorado Community Coll, Gerontol, Grand Junction, CO 81505 USAFayron Epps - Emory University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Healthcare (Basel), Vol.11(9), p.1319
- Publisher
- Mdpi
- DOI
- 10.3390/healthcare11091319
- PMID
- 37174861
- PMCID
- PMC10178032
- ISSN
- 2227-9032
- eISSN
- 2227-9032
- Number of pages
- 17
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/04/2023
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984701734602771
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