Effective caregiving approaches for patients with alzheimer's disease

To address the need for nonpharmacologic approaches to managin difficult behaviors in patients with dementia, a repeated measures design was used to test the effectiveness of educational and behavioral intervention on behavioral and functional outcomes in home-dwelling patients with dementia and the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Geriatric nursing (New York) 1998-05, Vol.19 (3), p.121-126
Hauptverfasser: Burgener, Sandy C., Bakas, Tamilyn, Murray, Cathy, Dunahee, JoAnne, Tossey, Susan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:To address the need for nonpharmacologic approaches to managin difficult behaviors in patients with dementia, a repeated measures design was used to test the effectiveness of educational and behavioral intervention on behavioral and functional outcomes in home-dwelling patients with dementia and their caregivers' knowledge of dementia. Baseline and 6-month postintervention data were collected for 108 subjects (54 caregiver/patient pairs) following random assignment to an intervention or comparison group. Findings included increases in caregiver knowledge in two treatment groups and patient self-care ability in one treatment group and ratings of the most effective behavioral interventions by caregivers.
ISSN:0197-4572
1528-3984
DOI:10.1016/S0197-4572(98)90055-6