Review Article

Spiritual Care in Advanced Dementia from the Perspective of Health Providers: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Table 3

Synthesized findings.

ThemesCategories

Perception of spirituality(i) Spirituality [14, 41]
(ii) Spirituality in end stage of dementia [14, 41]
(iii) Unsuccessful spiritual approach [3, 7, 9]
Spiritual needs of people with advanced dementia(i) Spiritual care plan record [9, 39, 40]
(ii) Familiar environment [6, 39]
(iii) Need for person-centered care [3, 23]
(iv) Interactions [6, 25, 41]
Spiritual needs of health care professionals(i) Additional training [3, 9, 23, 41]
(ii) Fear of death [3, 39]
Spiritual care(i) Conversations [3, 39]
(ii) Music [12, 25, 41]
(iii) Religion [3, 12, 41]
(iv) Meaningful occupations [4, 9]
(v) Private space [4, 23]
(vi) Namaste Care effects [4, 23, 25]
(vii) Other approaches [9, 12]