Effective caregiving approaches for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
To address the need for nonpharmacologic approaches to managing difficult behaviors in patients with dementia, a repeated measures design was used to test the effectiveness of educational and behavioral intervention on behavioral and functional outcomes in home-dwelling patients with dementia and their caregivers' knowledge of dementia. Baseline and 6-month postintervention data were collected for 108 subjects (54 caregiver/patient pairs) following random assignment to an intervention or comparison group. Findings included increases in caregiver knowledge in two treatment groups and patient self-care ability in one treatment group and ratings of the most effective behavioral interventions by caregivers.
Indiana University School of Nursing, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology