The Effects and Meaning of a Person-centred and Health-promoting Intervention in Home Care Services

Firstly, staff will take part in an educational program on the content and operationalization of the central theoretical components person-centeredness and health exploratory conversation. Secondly, staff will participate in supervised skill training in how to accomplish person-centered and health exploratory conversation. Thirdly, the staff will have a person-centred and health exploratory conversation with purpose to evaluate the extent to which current home care service practice meet the older person´s need and maintain or make rearrangement in provided care to maximise older people's health. Finally, staff will participate in clinical supervisory sessions with an aim to support and facilitate ongoing operationalization phase.

The control group will be offered a lecture about dementia based on staff wishes and a usual care paradigm will guide the control units, i.e. a continuation with practice as usual. Control units will receive the intervention protocol and study results at the end of the study.