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1 The amount of patients with dementia is increasing every year, and care facilities have limited space and resources to provide the necessary help for persons with dementia (PwDs) who need it. For our specific case we are taking a hypothetical Dutch care facility as our setting. This care facility is suffering from staff shortages, they have a limited amount of nurses who themselves have a limited amount of time, energy, and patience when caring for their patients. Many nurses note that due to the staff shortages, they have to work longer and harder hours leading to them being unable to fully physically and mentally recover after a work day. This lowers their overall energy and patience, which in turn decreases the quality of care for the patients as the nurses can become more easily frustrated, careless, and/or forgetful.
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3 PwDs often suffer from loneliness and feeling like a burden to their family before moving to a care home. They would like to have someone to talk to who is patient and understanding. In a care home, some of the nurses are there to keep the PwDs company throughout the day. However, the nurses have many other responsibilities and patients, so they are unable to spend as much time with the PwD as the PwD would like. Additionally, with the increased frustrations of the nurses, the time they spend with a PwD is of lower quality and might lead to higher frustrations, instead of calm and reassuring interactions, possibly leaving a PwD feeling like a burden, sad, and lonely. This is not an improvement from their feelings before being in a care home.
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5 Let's take an example PwD, Margaret (see [[1.a.3: Personas>>doc:Main.sdf.Personas.WebHome]])
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8 [[Feiten en cijfers over Verzorgingshuis>>url:https://www.zorgkaartnederland.nl/feiten-en-cijfers?subject=verzorgingshuis&page=pagina1]]