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Do patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from a psycho-educational programme for family caregivers? A randomised controlled study

...improves caregivers’ psychological condition and patients’ activities of daily life.; Method: Multicentre randomised controlled intervention trial. One hundred and sixty-seven dyads ‘patient-caregiver’ were recruited from 15 French memory clinics and...

Service users’ involvement in the development of a maintenance cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) programme: A comparison of the views of people with dementia, staff and family carers

...and active. Most family carers and staff were very positive but expressed concerns about the effectiveness of this type of programme and gave real life examples where the idea of...

Web-based psychosocial assessment for caregivers of persons with dementia: a feasibility study

...groups. Both groups rated the assessment instrument as excellent or good, finding it easy to complete capturing real needs they frequently denied or ignored. The APRN reported the web-based format...

Prevalence of anosognosia in Alzheimer’s disease

Background and Objective: Anosognosia is a disorder that affects the clinical presentation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), increasing in frequency with the evolution of AD. The objective was to...

“Learning to become a family caregiver” efficacy of an intervention program for caregivers following diagnosis of dementia in a relative

Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to test the efficacy of a psychoeducational individual program conceived to facilitate transition to the caregiver role following diagnosis of...

Home blood pressure measurement in elderly patients with cognitive impairment: comparison of agreement between relative-measured blood pressure and automated blood pressure measurement

Objectives: Home blood pressure measurement (HBPM) is recommended by guidelines for hypertension management. However, this method might be difficult to use in elderly individuals with cognitive disorders. Our...

Visuospatial memory and neuroimaging correlates in mild cognitive impairment

...controls and to investigate the brain structural correlates of visuospatial deficits. Twenty MCI patients and fourteen healthy elderly controls underwent an experimental visuospatial battery, which also included self-rating spatial questionnaires,...

Training needs and evaluation of a neuro-HIV training module for non-physician healthcare workers in western Kenya

...55 participants.; Results: Mean age of participants was 29 years, 53% were clinical officers and 40% were nurses. Self-reported comfort was significantly higher for treating medical versus neurologic conditions (p...

Effects of the TCARE® intervention on caregiver burden and depressive symptoms: preliminary findings from a randomized controlled study

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...

A brief neuropsychological battery for use in the chronic heart failure population

Background: Cognitive impairment is a recognized consequence of heart failure; however, there are no neuropsychological batteries with documented psychometric data in the chronic heart failure population.; Aims: To...

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