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Keeping up health promotion practices in specialized day care units for people with dementia
Background: Health promotion practices hold promises for elderly individuals’ quality of life. This article shows that such practices can be promoted in specialized day care units for individuals with dementia.; Method: Group interviews with 8 groups of staff (comprising 24 staff members) in 3 day care units.; Results: Rather than referring directly to health promotion […]
Evaluating proFamilies-dementia: adopting photovoice to capture clinical significance
Dementia is a challenging chronic illness that affects the patients and their families. Families often perform a full-time, specialised role, which requires expert knowledge and skills. This paper describes the evaluation of proFamilies-dementia (a programme developed to support families that care for a relative with dementia) using an innovative participatory methodology: photovoice, a qualitative method […]
Web-based psychosocial assessment for caregivers of persons with dementia: a feasibility study
Purpose and Design: Most of the 5.4 million Americans with dementia are cared for by family members who experience care needs and time constraints. This quasi-experimental study examined the experience of using a psychosocial assessment instrument to understand caregiver needs delivered in an interview versus a self-administered web-based format.; Methods: Ten family caregivers were randomized […]
Helping carers to care–the 10/66 dementia research group’s randomized control trial of a caregiver intervention in Russia
Gavrilova, Svetlana I.,
Ferri, Cleusa P.,
Mikhaylova, Natalya,
Sokolova, Olga,
Banerjee, Sube,
Prince, Martin
Objectives: Dementia is a rapidly growing public health problem in low and middle income countries. There is an urgent need, in the absence of formal services, to develop interventions designed to improve the lives of people with dementia, and their families. This study tests the effectiveness of the 10/66 caregiver intervention among people with dementia, […]
Effectiveness of a psychoeducational skill training DVD program to reduce stress in Chinese American dementia caregivers: results of a preliminary study
Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores,
Wang, Peng-Chih,
Liu, Weiling,
Cheung, Vinnie,
Peng, Rebecca,
China, Danielle,
Thompson, Larry W.
Prior research (Gallagher-Thompson, D., Gray, H., Tang, P., Pu, C.-Y., Tse, C., Hsu, S., et al. (2007). Impact of in-home intervention versus telephone support in reducing depression and stress of Chinese caregivers: Results of a pilot study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15, 425-434.) found that an in-home behavioral management program, derived conceptually from cognitive […]
Is sertraline treatment or depression remission in depressed Alzheimer patients associated with improved caregiver well being? Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease Study 2
Flynn Longmire, Crystal V.,
Drye, Lea T.,
Frangakis, Constantine E.,
Martin, Barbara K.,
Meinert, Curtis L.,
Mintzer, Jacobo E.,
Munro, Cynthia A.,
Porsteinsson, Anton P.,
Rabins, Peter V.,
Rosenberg, Paul B.,
Schneider, Lon S.,
Weintraub, Daniel,
Lyketsos, Constantine G.
Objective: We wanted to assess if sertraline treatment (versus placebo) or remission of depression at 12 weeks (versus nonremission) in Alzheimer patients is associated with improved caregiver well being.; Methods: We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the efficacy and safety of sertraline for the treatment of depression in individuals with Alzheimer disease […]
Effect of vitamin E and memantine on functional decline in Alzheimer disease: the TEAM-AD VA cooperative randomized trial
Dysken, Maurice W.,
Sano, Mary,
Asthana, Sanjay,
Vertrees, Julia E.,
Pallaki, Muralidhar,
Llorente, Maria,
Love, Susan,
Schellenberg, Gerard D.,
McCarten, J. Riley,
Malphurs, Julie,
Prieto, Susana,
Chen, Peijun,
Loreck, David J.,
Trapp, George,
Bakshi, Rajbir S.,
Mintzer, Jacobo E.,
Heidebrink, Judith L.,
Vidal-Cardona, Ana,
Arroyo, Lillian M.,
Cruz, Angel R.,
Zachariah, Sally,
Kowall, Neil W.,
Chopra, Mohit P.,
Craft, Suzanne,
Thielke, Stephen,
Turvey, Carolyn L.,
Woodman, Catherine,
Monnell, Kimberly A.,
Gordon, Kimberly,
Tomaska, Julie,
Segal, Yoav,
Peduzzi, Peter N.,
Guarino, Peter D.
Importance: Although vitamin E and memantine have been shown to have beneficial effects in moderately severe Alzheimer disease (AD), evidence is limited in mild to moderate AD.; Objective: To determine if vitamin E (alpha tocopherol), memantine, or both slow progression of mild to moderate AD in patients taking an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.; Design, Setting, and Participants: […]