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Barriers to community support for the dementia carer
— a qualitative study | | Author(s) | David G Bruce, Alison Paterson |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol l5, no 5, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp 451-457 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Community care ; Qualitative Studies ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Earlier recognition of carers' problems, the provision of better education, and earlier access to support services may lessen the degree of stress experienced by carers. In this Australian study of live-in carers of dementia sufferers, most suffered from high levels of stress, mainly due to behaviour disturbances and care needs of the dementia sufferers. Problems with health care agencies were also reported by most of the carers to be contributors to their distress. Although carers had experienced difficulties for some time, they perceived general practitioners (GPs) as referring dementia sufferers late for community care. Carers also complained that too little information was provided about the diagnosis of dementia, dealing with problem behaviours, and access to support services before and after assessment procedure. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000823217 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: PA: 3DP: 7YA |
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