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The role of dementia training programmes in reducing care-giver burden
Author(s)	Niall Gormley
Journal title	Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 24, no 2, February 2000
Pages	pp 41-42
Keywords	Dementia ; Family care ; Training [welfare work] ; Projects.
Annotation	Family caregivers play a vital role in the support of people with dementia. As well as opportunity costs, caregiving has been linked to a wide range of negative outcomes, including psychological disturbance, physical health problems, relationship changes and social activity restrictions. Carers identify access to information and training as an essential requirement in their struggle to continue their caregiving role. Despite an undoubted demand, few training initiatives exist for informal carers, or indeed for formal home care staff, a deficiency which has prompted a European Union (EU) project to develop a training package for family carers of older people with dementia. Although most qualitative studies report that carers find intervention programmes to be helpful, the results of controlled trials have not produced consistent evidence of their benefits. This may be due to significant methodological differences between studies, notably in the training programmes' content and aims. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000411220 A
Classmark	EA: P6:SJ: QW: 3E
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