Search strategy
Four major databases, Cumulative Index of Nursing and
Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Proquest, PsychLit and
MEDLINE were searched using a variety of search terms
including, ‘dementia care’, ‘acute care’, ‘models of dementia
care’, ‘chronic confusion’, ‘cognitive impairment’. A manual
search of the reference lists in each identified paper helped to
uncover further relevant papers. The search found 48 papers
related to the search strategy. Each paper was checked
against the inclusion criteria and this resulted in the 31 papers
that are discussed in this paper. The following discussion of
the findings commences with an identification of the common
themes of care management followed closely by a critique of
the selected models of care.