Paulette V Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulette V Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulette V |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1927-0433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Long-term care staff experience with virtual family visits during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada
The Covid-19 pandemic introduced new challenges for the long-term care (LTC) sector and changed how staff provided care to residents and families. For example, in Canada, LTC staff were required to implement social contact restrictions, while also supporting ‘virtual’ resident and family communication, with video conference visits becoming a primary strategy for this. The objective of this study was to explore Canadian LTC staff members’ experien…
Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of Covid-19 pandemic visitor restrictions
Canadian long-term care homes implemented strict visitor restrictions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to control the spread of the virus among residents. These restrictions extended to family caregivers, a significant provider of in-person physical and social care, preventing them from entering long-term care homes. The purpose of the current study was to explore the experiences and observations of family caregivers during the prolonged vis…
The Development and Preliminary Evaluation of the “SPA‐LTC Voices” Video Series as a Means of Articulating a Palliative Approach in Long‐Term Care Settings
Palliative care has earned its place as a respected approach to medicine that focuses on quality of life, symptom management, a team approach, and family involvement, typically following the diagnosis of a life‐limiting illness. To improve health equity, it is important to encourage the adaptation of palliative care practice and philosophy beyond hospices and within a range of care settings. To support further adaptation in long‐term care, our re…
Delivering person-centred palliative care in long-term care settings: Is humanism a quality of health-care employees or their organisations
Reflecting on sustained calls for patient-centredness and culture change in long-term care, we evaluated the relative importance of personal and organisational predictors of palliative care, hypothesising the former as weaker predictors than the latter. Health-care employees (N = 184) from four Canadian long-term care homes completed a survey of person-centred care, self-efficacy, employee wellbeing and occupational characteristics. Using backwar…
Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the Covid-19 pandemic
Mind the gap: Is the Canadian long-term care workforce ready for a palliative care mandate
The average expected lifespan in Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes is now less than two years post-admission, making LTC a palliative care setting. As little is known about the readiness of LTC staff in Canada to embrace a palliative care mandate, the main objective of this study was to assess qualities relevant to palliative care, including personal emotional wellbeing, palliative care self-efficacy and person-centred practices ( e.g. knowing …
Psychometric Evaluation of the Korean Version of the Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis
There is an increasing awareness of the need to promote behaviors consistent with the understanding that individuals with dementia deserve adequate respect. Person-centered attitudes on the part of a care facility's staff can affect care practices and relationships with residents. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (KPDQ), which measures staff's person-centered attitud…
Who would want to die like that?” Perspectives on dying alone in a long-term care setting
The discourse of dying alone is negatively weighted and models of a good death identify not dying alone as a key outcome. Understanding why dying alone is viewed negatively and its effects on care is a priority. In separate focus groups with long-term care residents, family caregivers, and staff, we identified evidence for four different perspectives on the importance of presence at the time of death. However, while each individual had their own …
A qualitative study of nursing assistants' awareness of person-centred approaches to dementia care
Recently, the number of education programmes addressing person-centred approaches to long-term residential dementia care has increased, and nursing assistants (NAs) are often the target audience. The effectiveness of employee education programmes is actively debated, and our objective is to contribute to this discussion by exploring the knowledge NAs acquire through practice. We examined approaches to person-centred care generated during a series…
A life history intervention for individuals with dementia: A randomised controlled trial examining nursing staff empathy, perceived patient personhood and aggressive behaviours
Behaviours of concern ( e.g. aggression) are often present in residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities diagnosed with dementia and may impact quality of life. Prior uncontrolled research has shown that an intervention involving sharing resident life histories may be effective in reducing aggressive behaviours and improving quality of life, perhaps by increasing staff empathy. We used a randomised controlled design, involving a considerably la…
Developmental trajectory of pseudoneglect in adults using the greyscales task
Neurologically healthy adults display a reliable but slight leftward spatial bias, and this bias appears to change with age (Jewell & McCourt, 2000). Studies using line bisection and the landmark task to investigate pseudoneglect in participants over 60 years of age have shown suppression and near reversal of the leftward response bias. The current research investigates the developmental trajectory of perceptual biases using the greyscales task-a…
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): Establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers' approaches to person-centred care
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): Establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers' approaches to person-centred care
A qualitative study of nursing assistants' awareness of person-centred approaches to dementia care
Recently, the number of education programmes addressing person-centred approaches to long-term residential dementia care has increased, and nursing assistants (NAs) are often the target audience. The effectiveness of employee education programmes is actively debated, and our objective is to contribute to this discussion by exploring the knowledge NAs acquire through practice. We examined approaches to person-centred care generated during a series…
Who would want to die like that?” Perspectives on dying alone in a long-term care setting
The discourse of dying alone is negatively weighted and models of a good death identify not dying alone as a key outcome. Understanding why dying alone is viewed negatively and its effects on care is a priority. In separate focus groups with long-term care residents, family caregivers, and staff, we identified evidence for four different perspectives on the importance of presence at the time of death. However, while each individual had their own …
Mind the gap: Is the Canadian long-term care workforce ready for a palliative care mandate
The average expected lifespan in Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes is now less than two years post-admission, making LTC a palliative care setting. As little is known about the readiness of LTC staff in Canada to embrace a palliative care mandate, the main objective of this study was to assess qualities relevant to palliative care, including personal emotional wellbeing, palliative care self-efficacy and person-centred practices ( e.g. knowing …
A life history intervention for individuals with dementia: A randomised controlled trial examining nursing staff empathy, perceived patient personhood and aggressive behaviours
Behaviours of concern ( e.g. aggression) are often present in residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities diagnosed with dementia and may impact quality of life. Prior uncontrolled research has shown that an intervention involving sharing resident life histories may be effective in reducing aggressive behaviours and improving quality of life, perhaps by increasing staff empathy. We used a randomised controlled design, involving a considerably la…
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): Establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers' approaches to person-centred care
A qualitative study of nursing assistants' awareness of person-centred approaches to dementia care
Recently, the number of education programmes addressing person-centred approaches to long-term residential dementia care has increased, and nursing assistants (NAs) are often the target audience. The effectiveness of employee education programmes is actively debated, and our objective is to contribute to this discussion by exploring the knowledge NAs acquire through practice. We examined approaches to person-centred care generated during a series…
A life history intervention for individuals with dementia: A randomised controlled trial examining nursing staff empathy, perceived patient personhood and aggressive behaviours
Behaviours of concern ( e.g. aggression) are often present in residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities diagnosed with dementia and may impact quality of life. Prior uncontrolled research has shown that an intervention involving sharing resident life histories may be effective in reducing aggressive behaviours and improving quality of life, perhaps by increasing staff empathy. We used a randomised controlled design, involving a considerably la…
Developmental trajectory of pseudoneglect in adults using the greyscales task
Neurologically healthy adults display a reliable but slight leftward spatial bias, and this bias appears to change with age (Jewell & McCourt, 2000). Studies using line bisection and the landmark task to investigate pseudoneglect in participants over 60 years of age have shown suppression and near reversal of the leftward response bias. The current research investigates the developmental trajectory of perceptual biases using the greyscales task-a…
Who would want to die like that?” Perspectives on dying alone in a long-term care setting
The discourse of dying alone is negatively weighted and models of a good death identify not dying alone as a key outcome. Understanding why dying alone is viewed negatively and its effects on care is a priority. In separate focus groups with long-term care residents, family caregivers, and staff, we identified evidence for four different perspectives on the importance of presence at the time of death. However, while each individual had their own …
Psychometric Evaluation of the Korean Version of the Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire Using Rasch Analysis
There is an increasing awareness of the need to promote behaviors consistent with the understanding that individuals with dementia deserve adequate respect. Person-centered attitudes on the part of a care facility's staff can affect care practices and relationships with residents. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (KPDQ), which measures staff's person-centered attitud…
Mind the gap: Is the Canadian long-term care workforce ready for a palliative care mandate
The average expected lifespan in Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes is now less than two years post-admission, making LTC a palliative care setting. As little is known about the readiness of LTC staff in Canada to embrace a palliative care mandate, the main objective of this study was to assess qualities relevant to palliative care, including personal emotional wellbeing, palliative care self-efficacy and person-centred practices ( e.g. knowing …
Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the Covid-19 pandemic
Delivering person-centred palliative care in long-term care settings: Is humanism a quality of health-care employees or their organisations
Reflecting on sustained calls for patient-centredness and culture change in long-term care, we evaluated the relative importance of personal and organisational predictors of palliative care, hypothesising the former as weaker predictors than the latter. Health-care employees (N = 184) from four Canadian long-term care homes completed a survey of person-centred care, self-efficacy, employee wellbeing and occupational characteristics. Using backwar…
Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of Covid-19 pandemic visitor restrictions
Canadian long-term care homes implemented strict visitor restrictions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to control the spread of the virus among residents. These restrictions extended to family caregivers, a significant provider of in-person physical and social care, preventing them from entering long-term care homes. The purpose of the current study was to explore the experiences and observations of family caregivers during the prolonged vis…
The Development and Preliminary Evaluation of the “SPA‐LTC Voices” Video Series as a Means of Articulating a Palliative Approach in Long‐Term Care Settings
Palliative care has earned its place as a respected approach to medicine that focuses on quality of life, symptom management, a team approach, and family involvement, typically following the diagnosis of a life‐limiting illness. To improve health equity, it is important to encourage the adaptation of palliative care practice and philosophy beyond hospices and within a range of care settings. To support further adaptation in long‐term care, our re…
Long-term care staff experience with virtual family visits during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada
The Covid-19 pandemic introduced new challenges for the long-term care (LTC) sector and changed how staff provided care to residents and families. For example, in Canada, LTC staff were required to implement social contact restrictions, while also supporting ‘virtual’ resident and family communication, with video conference visits becoming a primary strategy for this. The objective of this study was to explore Canadian LTC staff members’ experien…
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (5 works) · Dementia (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Palliative care (4 works)