Abstract
This study aimed to elucidate factors related to nurses’ ability to practice seamless care for elderly dementia patients at hospitals for community-based care. A questionnaire was administered to 2,000 nurses at 200 hospitals for community-based care. We obtained 605 valid responses (30.3%). The contents of the questionnaire included the basic attributes, seamless care for elderly dementia patients in community-based integrated care scale (SCD-CBS), support standards for the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), and the scale to evaluate professional discharge planning ability of nurses (NDPAS). The results showed that the variance inflation factor (VIF) of the model for items related to SCD-CBS in the practice seamless care for elderly patients with dementia was between 1.008 and 3.175（VIF＜5.00）. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that SCD-CBS was related to “adjustment power,” of NDPAS, “unhygienic,” of SS-BPSD, “estimating power,” of NDPAS, support from people in other occupations, and “act of aggression (violence),” of SS-BPSD (adjusted R2 = .604). It is suggested that seamless care for elderly patients with BPSD is important in cooperation with people in other occupations to improve SCD-CBS.
