Assessing social connection for long-term care home residents: A scoping review of measure content.
Madalena P LiougasAndrew SommerladHannah M O'RourkeHannah ChapmanNeha DewanKatherine S McGiltonJennifer BethellPublished in: Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) (2024)
Social connection is important to long-term care (LTC) home residents' quality of life.Social connection has been assessed by quantifying/describing relationships.Existing measures usually assess more than one aspect of social connection.These aspects cover several interlinked observed or experienced domains.Dementia and non-dementia-specific measures differ in assessing social connection.