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| Effect of integrated family support versus day care only on behavior and mood of patients with dementia | | Author(s) | Rose-Marie Droes, Elles Breebaart, Teake P Ettema |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 12, no 1, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 99-116 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Management [care] ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Day services ; Comparison ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The hypothesis is tested that integrated family support, in which patients and caregivers are both supported by one professional member of staff, is more effective in influencing the dementia patient's behaviour problems and mood than non-integrated support such as psychogeriatric day care only. An experimental group of 33 patients from the Amsterdam Meeting Centres project participated with their caregivers in an 7-month integrated family support programme, whereas a control group of 23 received psychogeriatric day care only. The integrated family support programme proved the more effective in influencing the total amount of behaviour problems, as well as the degree of inactivity and non-social behaviour. Because behaviour problems are an important determinant for admission of people with dementia to nursing homes, integrated family support may contribute to delaying institutionalisation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001109209 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QA: QAJ: QK6: NM: 48: 76H |
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