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Sienna Caspar
Researcher at University of Lethbridge
Publications - 26
Citations - 644
Sienna Caspar is an academic researcher from University of Lethbridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Long-term care & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 24 publications receiving 526 citations. Previous affiliations of Sienna Caspar include University of British Columbia & University of Victoria.
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Clinical features and multidisciplinary approaches to dementia care
TL;DR: The cumulative efforts of multidisciplinary healthcare teams have advanced the understanding of dementia beyond basic descriptions, towards a more complete elucidation of risk factors, clinical symptoms, and neuropathological correlates.
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The Influence of Care Provider Access to Structural Empowerment on Individualized Care in Long-Term-Care Facilities
Sienna Caspar,Norm O'Rourke +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from this study suggest that provision of individualized care in LTC may be enhanced when formal caregivers have appreciable access to empowerment structures.
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The differential influence of culture change models on long-term care staff empowerment and provision of individualized care.
TL;DR: The greater caregivers’ day-to-day contact with residents, the more CCMs appear to affect perceived empowerment and reported provision of individualized care, and Multivariate analyses of variance compared these constructs by CCM for each of three caregiver groups.
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Influence of Individual and Contextual Characteristics on the Provision of Individualized Care in Long-Term Care Facilities
TL;DR: Findings suggest that both contextual- and individual-level factors exert considerably less influence on I-Care than factors associated to staffs' perceptions of empowerment, and interventions aimed at increasing I- care in LTC settings should carefully consider staffs's access to structural empowerment.
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The Influence of Organizational Systems on Information Exchange in Long-Term Care Facilities An Institutional Ethnography
TL;DR: The organizational systems that influence resident care attendants’ (RCAs) access to care information in long-term care (LTC) settings are explored and microsystems of care, based on information exchange formats, emerged.