title: Effects of the NYU caregiver intervention-adult child on residential care placement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study determined whether the NYU Caregiver Intervention, adapted in Minnesota for adult child caregivers (NYUCI-AC), prevented or delayed residential care placement for persons with dementia.
  
  
  METHODS
  A single-blinded randomized controlled trial design was used. One hundred and seven adult child caregivers of persons with dementia were randomly assigned to the NYUCI-AC treatment group who received individual and family counseling, support group referral, and ad hoc consultation or a contact control group. Participants were asked to complete structured assessments quarterly during Year 1 and every 6 months thereafter for a minimum of 2 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two thirds (66%) of adult child caregivers in the control condition admitted their parent to a residential care setting compared with 37% in the treatment condition. Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models found that NYUCI-AC participants were significantly less likely (p < .05) to admit their parents to a residential care setting and delayed their parents' time to admission significantly longer (228.36 days longer on average) than those in the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The multicomponent NYUCI-AC offered adult children the psychosocial support required to continue providing care to cognitively impaired parents at home.
authors: *Address correspondence to Joseph E. Gaugler, School of Nursing & Center on Aging, University of Minnesota, 6-153 Weaver-Densford Hall, 1331, 308 Harvard Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: gaug0015@umn.edu.
authors: Joseph E
authors: JE
authors: Gaugler
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Reese
authors: Mary S
authors: MS
authors: Mittelman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032721:Adult Children / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003704:Dementia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015995:Prevalence; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Caregiving; Institutionalization; Intervention; Nursing home admission