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## Objectives Little is known about how care home staff understand and respond to distress in residents living with dementia labelled as agitation. The aim of this study was to describe how care home staff understand and respond to agitation and the factors that determine how it is managed. ## Design We conducted a qualitative thematic analysis. ## Setting We recruited staff from six care homes in South East England including residential and nursing homes of differing sizes run by both the private and charity sector and located in urban and rural areas. ## Participants We interviewed 25 care home staff using purposive sampling to include staff of either sex, differing age, ethnicity, nationality and with different roles and experience. ## Results We identified four overarching themes: (1) behaviours expressing unmet need; (2) staff emotional responses to agitation; (3) understanding the individual helps and (4) constraints on staff responses. Staff struggled with the paradox of trying to connect with the personhood of residents while seeing the person as separate to and, therefore, not responsible for their behaviours. Staff often felt powerless, frightened and overwhelmed, and the
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- Author
- Rapaport, Penny; Livingston, Gill; Hamilton, Olivia; Turner, Rebecca; Stringer, Aisling; Robertson, Sarah; Cooper, Claudia
- Publisher
- BMJ; BMJ Publishing Group; London: BMJ Publishing (ISSN 2044-6055)
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)