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found, overall, a positive effect for managing aggression/agitation among LTC residents with dementia through staff training initiatives. This update identified seven systematic reviews that studied different types and aspects of staff training (8,11,17,20–23). The original project considered Staff Training generally and Person-Centered Bathing (PCB) as two separate categories. This update combines the two under an umbrella category of Staff Training, which is further sub-divided into four types: Dementia Care Mapping (DCM), Emotion-Centered Care (ECC), PCB and Person Centered Care (PCC). Person Centered Care The most rigorously studied sub-category of Staff Training was PCC, with six systematic reviews reporting on this approach). Two moderate quality reviews concluded that the evidence was insufficient to draw any conclusions (17,20). However, the remaining reviews were unequivocal that sufficient evidence is available to endorse PCC to reduce aggression/agitation for LTC residents with dementia. The most extensive review by Kim and Park included seven primary research studies that measured aggression/agitation outcomes.

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