Research and publications

The research project

The overall objective of this research project is to develop care farming services for persons with dementia that can contribute to long-term solutions of the increasing need for good day care services for a growing elderly population and add sustainable economic value to the agricultural sector. More concrete, this project will investigate experiences and potential benefits of farm based day care services for persons with dementia and their next of kin, study how aspects of agriculture and farm life facilitate a person-centered care environment for persons with dementia, and at last identify factors enabling a successful collaboration between farmers as providers of farm ased day care services and the municipalities.

Partners:

Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU), Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Aging and Health (Aging and Health), Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Food and Agriculture Division, and Ruralis, Institute for Rural and Regional Research (Ruralis) forms the research group.

The research group cooperate with:

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, The Netherlands, Dr Simone de Bruin.
University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Ireland, Deirdre O’Conner.

Funding:

The Research Council of Norway.

Publications:

Being sheltered from a demanding everyday life: experiences of the next of kin to people with dementia attending farm-based daycare

Author(s): Liv Bjerknes Taranrød, Ingeborg Pedersen, Øyvind Kirkevold & Siren Eriksen

Results: We identified three main categories: (1) I am fine when you are fine, (2) Significant aspects of the service at the farm, and (3) FDC as a part of the dementia trajectory. The findings were summarized in one overarching, latent theme: “Being sheltered from a demanding everyday life”.

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Being sheltered from a demanding everyday life: experiences of the next of kin to people with dementia attending farm-based daycare
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Demensomsorg på gård: Et samarbeid mellom landbruk og kommunal helsesektor

Author(s): Anne Strøm Prestvik, Brit Logstein, Ivar Pettersen, Heidi Knutsen, Jostein Brobakk, Maja Farstad og Birger Vennesland

SUMMARY: This report is part of the research project called Farm-based day care services for people with dementia: quality development through interdisciplinary collaboration. We have studied farmers who are offering these services and the municipalities who buy the services on behalf of their citizens, and how these actors collaborate.

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Demensomsorg på gård: Et samarbeid mellom landbruk og kommunal helsesektor
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PHD: Quality of care at farm-based day care services for people with dementia – the farm as a setting for promoting health, well-being and quality of life

Author(s): Bjørnar Finnanger Garshol

Summary Background: There is an increasing prevalence of dementia worldwide, with an estimated 35.6 million people living with dementia in 2010. This number is expected to double by 2030 and double again by 2050. The increasing number of people with dementia and the burden the disease places on those affected and their informal caregivers have […]

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Quality of care at farm-based day care services for people with dementia – the farm as a setting for promoting health, well-being and quality of life
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Dropout from farm-based day care for people with dementia in Norway: a followup study

Author(s): Ibsen TL, Kirkevold Ø, Patil GG, Eriksen S.

ABSTRACT Background: Farm-based day care services (FDCs) for people with dementia are intending to provide social relationships and meaningful activities in an agricultural landscape and offer respite for next of kin. As this requires a certain cognitive and physical functioning, it is of interest to investigate how this service contribute during the course of dementia. […]

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Dropout from farm-based day care for people with dementia in Norway: a followup study
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Farm-based day care on the market: The case of dementia care services in Norway

Author(s): Maja Farstad, Brit Logstein, Marit S. Haugen, Deirdre O’Connor

ABSTRACT: In line with the multifunctional agriculture discourse, care farming is highlighted by governments as a promising service—as an additional source of income for farmers and as a current alternative or supplement to ordinary public care services. Based on the rather modest number of care farming services and their often unstable existence, this paper examines […]

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Farm-based day care on the market: The case of dementia care services in Norway
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The experience of attending a farm-based day care service from the perspective of people with dementia: A qualitative study

Author(s): Tanja Louise Ibsen & Siren Eriksen

Abstract People with dementia have different needs, and it is important to have variation in the services that are offered for this population. Farm-based day care aims to meet this diversity in need, but research on such services is lacking. The present study provides knowledge about how people with dementia experience attending farm-based day care […]

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The experience of attending a farm-based day care service from the perspective of people with dementia: A qualitative study
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Care Farming for People with Dementia

Author(s): Simone R de Bruin, Ingeborg Pedersen, Siren Eriksen, Jan Hassink, Lenneke Vaandrager, Grete Grindal Patil

Abstract: There is growing recognition that traditional dementia care models fall short for people with dementia and their family caregivers. This has led to a call for new dementia care approaches. In response to this call, innovations in long-term dementia care are taking place both in the community and in residential care. One of these […]

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Care Farming for People with Dementia;What Can Healthcare Leaders Learn from This Innovative Care Concept?
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Physical activity in people with dementia

Author(s): Bjørnar Finnanger Garshol, Lina Ellingsen-Dalskau, Ingeborg Pedersen

Abstract Background: Despite public focus on the importance of physical activity and findings showing the benefits of such activity, research has shown that people with dementia are less physically active and have more sedentary behaviour compared to others in similar age groups. In Norway, there is a focus on day care services as a means […]

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Physical activity in people with dementia
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Comparing the care environment at farm-based and regular day

Author(s): Lina H. Ellingsen-Dalskau, Bram de Boer, Ingeborg Pedersen

Abstract People with dementia should be able to live in the community, and day care services are recommended as a means for people to live in their own homes for as long as possible. In this study we wanted to compare the quality of care at one type of small-scale day care situated at community […]

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Comparing the care environment at farm-based and regular day
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People with dementia attending farm-based day care in Norway

Author(s): Ibsen TL, Kirkevold Ø, Patil GG, Eriksen S.

Abstract Farm-based day care for people with dementia is supposed to improve the participants quality of life by using activities and resources of the farm environment to promote mental and physical health. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of those attending farm-based day care services in Norway and explore the association between individual and […]

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People with dementia attending farm-based day care in Norway
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Study protocol work package A

Author(s): Eriksen S, Pedersen I, Taranrød LB, Ellingsen-Dalskau LH, Garshol BF, Kirkevold Ø, Strandli E, Patil GG

Farm-based day care services - a prospective study protocol on health benefits on People With dementia and Next of kin is an article describing the aim, Methods and structures of work package A.

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Farm-based day care services - a prospective study on people with dementia and next of kin
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A descriptive study of the farm context

Author(s): Ibsen TL, Eriksen S, Patil GG

The present study aims to investigate FDC in Norway and describe the services and the participants’ care environment.

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Farm-based day care in Norway - a complementary service for people with dementia
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Protocol

Author(s): NMBU, Aldring og helse, NIBIO, Ruralis

The protocol for describes the aim for the project as a whole and present the different work packages.

Documents:

Project proposal2016
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