van Hout, H. P. J., Macneil Vroomen, J. L., Van Mierlo, L. D., Meiland, F. J. M., Moll van Charante, E. P., Joling, K. J., van den Dungen, P., Dröes, R. M., van der Horst, H. E., de Rooij, S. E. J. A.

Background: Dementia care in The Netherlands is shifting from fragmented, ad hoc care to more coordinated and personalized care. Case management contributes to this shift. The linkage model and a combination of intensive case management and joint agency care models were selected based on their emerging prominence in The Netherlands. It is unclear if these […]

MacNeil Vroomen, Janet, Van Mierlo, Lisa D., van de Ven, Peter M., Bosmans, Judith E, van den Dungen, Pim, Meiland, Franka J. M., Dröes, Rose-Marie, Moll van Charante, Eric P., van der Horst, Henriëtte E, de Rooij, Sophia E., van Hout, Hein P.J.

Background: Dementia care in the Netherlands is shifting from fragmented, ad hoc care to more coordinated and personalised care. Case management contributes to this shift. The linkage model and a combination of intensive case management and joint agency care models were selected based on their emerging prominence in the Netherlands. It is unclear if these […]

Chiatti, Carlos, Masera, Filippo, Rimland, Joseph M., Cherubini, Antonio, Scarpino, Osvaldo, Spazzafumo, Liana, Lattanzio, Fabrizia

Background: The epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents a significant challenge for the health care and social service systems of many developed countries. AD affects both patients and family caregivers, on whom the main burden of care falls, putting them at higher risk of stress, anxiety, mortality and lower quality of life. Evidence remains controversial […]

Lukas, A., Kilian, R., Hay, B., Muche, R., von Arnim, C.A.F., Otto, M., Riepe, M., Jamour, M., Denkinger, M.D., Nikolaus, T.

Background: When facing the well-known demographic development with an increasing number of people suffering from dementia, there is a need of programmes to support nursing relatives and care at home. Many support services have been established in the past few years but they are rarely used by the relatives and the patients. The purpose of […]

Lam, Linda C. W., Lee, Jenny S. W., Chung, Jenny C. C., Lau, Anna, Woo, Jean, Kwok, Timothy C. Y.

Objective: To evaluate a case management (CM) model for people with mild dementia, whereby resources within the family and in the community were mobilized and optimally used.; Method: Community dwelling psychiatric and geriatrics outpatients with mild dementia were randomized to receive CM by a trained occupational therapist for 4 months (CM group, N = 59) […]

Jansen, Aaltje P.D., van Hout, Hein P.J., Nijpels, Giel, Rijmen, Frank, Dröes, Rose-Marie, Pot, Anne-Margriet, Schellevis, François G., Stalman, Wim A.B., van Marwijk, Harm W.J.

Background: It is believed that timely recognition and diagnosis of dementia is a pre-condition for improving care for both older adults with dementia and their informal caregivers. However, diagnosing dementia often occurs late in the disease. This means that a significant number of patients with early symptoms of dementia and their informal caregivers may lack […]

Bird, Michael, Llewellyn-Jones, Robert H., Korten, Ailsa

Objectives: Treatment of challenging behaviour in dementia using standardized psychopharmacological or psychosocial approaches remains problematical. A case-specific approach was trialled in this study, based on extensive evidence that each case is different in aetiology, the effects of the behaviour on others and what interventions are possible given the available resources.; Method: Forty-four consecutive referrals for […]