2026 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 63-71
The purpose of this study is to identify nursing practices through collaboration with care workers to alleviate irritability and agitation in older adults with dementia at special nursing home. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses. As general nursing practice, the following five categories were identified by using an inductive coding approach: “observation of everyday situations in living spaces involving elderly with dementia and their caregiver,” “utilization of information that the care workers have on the daily life situation of older adults with dementia to investigate the cause of irritability and agitation,” “responding with caregivers according to the state of irritability and agitation of older adults with dementia and the situation at hand,” “emotional support for caregivers to face irritability and agitation in older adults with dementia,” and “perceiving opportunities where it is difficult to alleviate irritability and agitation in older adults with dementia, and improving the care workers’ skills in providing assistance.” It was suggested that the nurses work together with caregivers to find the cause of the irritability and agitation, to support caregivers to improve their assistance skills, and to work together to alleviate irritability and agitation.
