The WHELD programme: showing the benefits
Abstract
The WHELD study demonstrates that with support home care teams can incorporate into practice a focused approach to person centred care, augmented with other therapeutic elements of personalised social activities and antipsychotic review.
The approach delivers benefits for people with dementia living in care homes and is cost-effective.
Widespread implementation to extend theses benefits to other care homes is the next challenge.
More then 95% of currently available training is not evidence-based (Fossey et al. 2014) so it is particularly important that we strive to implement training that directly benefits residents with dementia.
Citations
Lucy Garrod, Jane Fossey, Clive Ballard. The WHELD programme: showing the benefits. Journal of dementia care Vol 27/1 Jan/Feb 2019
Page last reviewed: 12 June, 2025
Metadata
Author(s): Fossey, Jane; Garrod, Lucy
Collection: 123456789/172
Subject(s): Care Homes, Dementia, Well being and Health (WHELD) interventionPatient Centred Care
Format(s): Article
Date issued: 2019-01
ISSN: 1351-8372
ID: 122