Nursing home staff training in dementia care. A systematic review of evaluated programs

Background: We reviewed in-service intervention studies for caregivers of persons with dementia in nursing homes published between 1990 and 2004 to give an overview of the evaluated interventions and to characterize their methodological quality. Methods: A thorough literature search was conducted, including searching electronic databases for selected intervention studies and previous reviews. Selected studies were summarized and compared along certain categories, and methodological quality was assessed. Results: A total of 21 studies were identified, most published in the US. Most studies were also of poor metho…