Katrin Gillis

PhD MScN

This presentation will explained why caregivers struggle with providing emotional support to people with dementia and why pharmacological treatments are dominant in the response to behavioral and psychological symptoms of people with dementia (BPSD). Need-based care is an evidence-based approach to respond in an appropriate way to those BPSD. Besides the feasibility and effectiveness of need-based care, in which non-pharmacological interventions are used to regulate emotions of people with dementia, some of the essential conditions for implementation will be highlighted. The presentation is a summary of a decade of research on quality of care for people with dementia.

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Speaking history

AANN Annual Conference: Uniting Expertise, Elevating Care

21 March 2026 Dallas, United States “The Impact of Research on Need-Based Care on Nurses’ Clinical Decision-Making in the Care for People with Dementia”

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