Kiely, Dan K., Givens, Jane L., Shaffer, Michele L., Teno, Joan M., Mitchell, Susan L.

Objectives: To identify characteristics of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia and their healthcare proxies (HCPs) associated with hospice referral and to examine the association between hospice use and the treatment of pain and dyspnea and unmet needs during the last 7 days of life.; Design: Prospective cohort study.; Setting: Twenty-two Boston-area NHs.; Participants: […]

Montgomery, R. J. V., Kwak, J., Kosloski, K., O'Connell Valuch, K.

Objectives: We examined the effects of a manualized care management protocol specifically designed for care managers working with caregivers, the Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral® (TCARE®) protocol, on caregiver identity discrepancy, burden, and depressive symptoms.; Methods: Preliminary data from a longitudinal, randomized, controlled intervention study with 266 family caregivers served by 52 care managers in […]

McSweeney, Kate, Jeffreys, Aimee, Griffith, Joanne, Plakiotis, Chris, Kharsas, Renee, O'Connor, Daniel W.

Objective: This cluster randomized controlled trial sought to determine whether multidisciplinary specialist mental health consultation was more effective than care as usual in treating the depression of aged care residents with dementia.; Methods: Three hundred and eighty nine aged care residents were screened for dementia and major depression. Forty four were ultimately included in the […]

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 […]

Kwak, J., Montgomery, R. J. V., Kosloski, K., Lang, J.

Purpose Of the Study: Findings are reported from a study that examined the effects of the Tailored Caregiver Assessment and Referral (TCARE®) protocol, a care management process designed to help family caregivers, on care planning and caregiver outcomes.; Design and Methods: A longitudinal, randomized controlled trial was conducted with 97 caregivers enrolled in a demonstration […]

Fortinsky, Richard H., Kulldorff, Martin, Kleppinger, Alison, Kenyon-Pesce, Lisa

Objective: The primary objective is to report on the efficacy of an individualized dementia care consultation intervention for family caregivers of patients with diagnosed dementia living in the community. The secondary objective is to present evidence on the intervention process to inform the feasibility and sustainability of the model featuring collaboration between primary care physicians […]