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A randomized controlled trial of a home environmental intervention
— effect on efficacy and upset in caregivers and on daily function of persons with dementia | | Author(s) | Laura N Gitlin, Mary Corcoran, Laraine Winter |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 1, February 2001 |
| Pages | pp 4-14 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Morale ; Stress ; Dementia ; Housing [elderly] ; Adaption ; Occupational therapists ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors determined short-term effects of a home environmental intervention on self-efficacy and upset in caregivers and daily function of dementia patients. They also determined whether treatment effect varied by caregiver gender, race, and relationship to patient. 171 families of dementia patients were randomised to intervention or usual care control group. The intervention involved five 90-minute home visits by occupational therapists who provided education and physical and social environmental modifications. The results showed that compared with controls, intervention caregivers reported fewer declines in patients' instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and less decline in self-care and fewer behaviour problems in patients at 3 months post-test. Other results are given; but the implications drawn are that the environmental programme appears to have a modest effect on dementia patients' IADL dependence. Also, among certain subgroups of caregivers, the programme improves self-efficacy and reduces upset in specific areas of caregiving. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010622201 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DQ: QNH: EA: KE: 5SA: QTR: 7T |
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