Understanding the everyday use of restrictive practices in the care of people living with dementia during a hospital admission: reducing inappropriate use, identifying good practice and alternative approaches to reduce risk and improve care
Dementia
Ethnography and in-situ interviews about the everyday use of formal and informal restrictive practices across a range of hospital settings known to admit people living with dementia. Ethnographic data collection will be carried out within nine wards: six acute wards (three general medicine and three older person’s care) and three specialist inpatient mental health wards (dementia specialist mental health in-patient wards across trusts in two regions of the UK (Yorkshire and the South East) and health boards in Wales. 30 days of observation will occur in each acute ward alongside 15 days of observation will occur in each mental health ward (n = 225 days of observed practice).
Ward staff, patients and carers and family members of patients with a diagnosis or query of dementia when admitted to hospital
Patients without a diagnosis or query of dementia will not be included in observations