Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
      • Search strategies and results
      • Findings
        • Predictors of care transition
        • Description of care pathways
        • Intervention to modify care pathways
        • Care pathways of special population groups
      • Recommendations
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
  • Body section
    1. Background
      • Care transitions and care pathways
      • Australian service context
        • Australia’s health and aged care system
        • Services for people with dementia
        • Movements through the health and aged care system
      • Dementia and care pathways
        • Dementia and its implications for service use and care pathways
        • Service use by people with dementia in Australia
    2. Review Approach
      • Inclusion and exclusion criteria
      • Search methods
      • Selection process
        • Search terms that identified selected studies
        • Country of origin
      • Study quality
    3. Review of evidence
      • Predictors of care transitions
        • General studies of predictors of institutionalisation
        • Focused studies of predictors of institutionalisation
          • Dementia progression as a predictor of institutionalisation
          • Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia as predictors of institutionalisation
          • Caregiver and family characteristics as predictors of institutionalisation
          • Service use & interventions as predictors of institutionalisation
        • Predictors of care transition discussion
      • Descriptions of care pathways and transitions
        • Diagnosis
        • Movements between care types
        • End-of-life care and place of death
        • Description of care pathways and transitions discussion
      • Interventions to modify care transitions
        • Caregiver counselling and support
        • Caregiver training
        • Multidisciplinary intervention
        • Early intervention: family counselling and memory clinic
        • Respite care
        • Intervention to modify care transitions discussion
      • Special population groups
        • People with younger-onset dementia
        • People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
        • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
        • People living in rural and remote areas
        • Intellectual Disability and Dementia
        • Special population groups discussion
    4. Key gaps in the evidence
    5. Recommendations
      • For practice
      • For further research
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1
        • Levels of evidence
          • National Health & Medical Research Council designations of levels of evidence – Intervention, and prediction and prognosis studies (NHMRC 2000)
          • Frameworks for assessing quality
            • The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal of a Systematic Review (JBI 2000)
            • Dorothy Forbes’ External, Internal, and Statistical Conclusion Validity Rating Tool (Forbes 1998)
            • Checklist for appraising the quality of studies of interventions (NHMRC 2000)
            • Altman’s Framework for assessing internal validity of articles dealing with prognosis (Altman, 2001)
            • Angus Forbes’ Appraisal Schedule (Forbes & Griffiths, 2002)
      • Appendix 2
        • Predictors of care transitions
          • General studies of predictors of institutionalisation
          • Focused studies of predictors of institutionalisation
            • Dementia progression as a predictor of institutionalisation
            • Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia as predictors of institutionalisation
            • Service use and interventions as predictors of institutionalisation
        • Descriptions of care pathways and transitions
          • Diagnosis
          • Movements between care types
          • End-of-life care and place of death
        • Interventions to modify care transitions
          • Caregiver Counselling & Support
          • Caregiver Training
          • Multidisciplinary intervention
          • Early intervention: family counselling and Memory Clinic
          • Respite care
        • Special population groups
          • People with younger-onset dementia
    • References