Waldorff, F. B., Buss, D. V., Eckermann, A., Rasmussen, M. L. H., Keiding, N., Rishøj, S., Siersma, V., Sørensen, J., Sørensen, L. V., VOGEL, A., WALDEMAR, G.

Objective: To assess the efficacy at 12 months of an early psychosocial counselling and support programme for outpatients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and their primary care givers.; Design: Multicentre, randomised, controlled, rater blinded trial.; Setting: Primary care and memory clinics in five Danish districts.; Participants: 330 outpatients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and their 330 primary […]

Menn, Petra, Holle, Rolf, Kunz, Simone, Donath, Carolin, Lauterberg, Jörg, Leidl, Reiner, Marx, Peter, Mehlig, Hilmar, Ruckdäschel, Stephan, Vollmar, Horst Christian, Wunder, Sonja, Gräßel, Elmar

Objective: To compare a complex nondrug intervention including actively approaching counseling and caregiver support groups with differing intensity against usual care with respect to time to institutionalization in patients with dementia.; Methods: Within this three-armed cluster-randomized controlled trial, 390 community-dwelling patients aged 65 years or older with physician-diagnosed mild to moderate dementia and their caregivers […]

Geschke, K., Scheurich, A., Schermuly, I., Laux, N., Böttcher, A., Fellgiebel, A.

Background: Psychoeducation and professional support of family caregivers are regarded as important aspects in dementia care. In the context of a general practitioner’s (GP) based dementia care project we investigated if professional counselling after making a diagnosis of dementia can reduce the development of depression in family caregivers.; Methods: 42 patients with dementia and their […]

Holle, Rolf, Grässel, Elmar, Ruckdäschel, Stefan, Wunder, Sonja, Mehlig, Hilmar, Marx, Peter, Pirk, Olaf, Butzlaff, Martin, Kunz, Simone, Lauterberg, Jörg

Background: Current guidelines for dementia care recommend the combination of drug therapy with non-pharmaceutical measures like counselling and social support. However, the scientific evidence concerning non-pharmaceutical interventions for dementia patients and their informal caregivers remains inconclusive. Targets of modern comprehensive dementia care are to enable patients to live at home as long and as independent […]

Grossfeld-Schmitz, Maria, Donath, Carolin, Holle, Rolf, Lauterberg, Joerg, Ruckdaeschel, Stephan, Mehlig, Hilmar, Marx, Peter, Wunder, Sonja, Grässel, Elmar

Background: Counselling of family members is an established procedure in the support of dementia patients’ relatives. In absence of widespread specialised dementia care services in most countries, however, counselling services are often not taken up or only very late in the course of the disease.; Object: In order to promote acceptance of this service, a […]

Tappen, Ruth M., Williams, Christine L.

Few studies have tested strategies to address the mental health needs of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To test a newly developed, empirically based modified counseling approach, 30 nursing home residents with AD were randomly assigned to a modified counseling (Therapeutic Conversation) treatment group or usual care control group. Mini-Mental State Examination mean scores were […]

Ott, Carol H., Kelber, Sheryl T., Blaylock, Michele

A multicomponent intervention targeting grief symptoms in spouse caregivers of individuals with dementia was pilot tested in this feasibility study. Twenty spouse caregivers completed the study within the 5-month protocol. The five-component intervention, deduced from Meuser, Marwit, and Sanders’ Dementia Caregiver Grief Model and tailored to participants’ grief, mental health, and learning needs, included supportive […]

Jha, Arun, Jan, Farida, Gale, Tim, Newman, Charmaine

Objective: To investigate whether recovery-orientated psychiatric assessment and therapeutic intervention enhances the wellbeing of people with dementia and their family carers.; Methods: In a preliminary randomised controlled trial, 48 people with early dementia were recruited. Of 34 who completed the trial, 17 were in the recovery and 17 in the treatment as usual group. Recovery […]

Glueckauf, Robert L., Davis, W. Shuford, Allen, Kay, Chipi, Patty, Schettini, Gabriel, Tegen, Lance, Jian, Xu, Gustafson, David J., Maze, Janet, Mosser, Barbara, Prescott, Susie, Robinson, Fay, Short, Cindy, Tickel, Sandra, VanMatre, Joyce, DiGeronimo, Thomas, Ramirez, Carmen

Objective: Discuss initial evaluation of a program for training faith community nurses (FCNs) to conduct cognitive-behavioral and spiritual counseling (CBSC) for rural dementia caregivers (CGs), and present 2 case studies on the use of CBSC for treating depression in this population.; Study Design: Pre-post evaluation of the effectiveness of CBSC training and a case study […]