Why are residents with dementia being interviewed?
Inclusion of residents with dementia not only strengthens the reliability of the results, but also it is ethical to try to include all residents perspectives.In long-term care facility satisfaction research, families and facility staff once served as surrogates for residents.The frailty of the long-term care facility residents makes them expensive to interview, and their varying levels of dementia led some to believe that they cannot speak for themselves.Numerous research groups worked in the 1990s to develop reliable and valid resident satisfaction tools to capture perceptions of long-term care facility residents, including those with dementia.The nursing home and residential care facility resident satisfaction surveys being used for this statewide project have been designed and field-tested for use with this population.The interviewer-training program, which includes methods proven to achieve a high response rate, is based on Vital Researchs decade of experience conducting over 95,00
