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Developing and evaluating community based intervention programs for Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers
Author(s)	S H Zarit, S A Leitsch
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 5, supplement 1, May 2001
Pages	pp S84-S98
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Informal care ; Community care ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews.
Annotation	innovative community-based social and behavioural interventions for people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their family caregivers have increased substantially in creativity and recognition over the years. However, the commitment to scientific design and evaluation of these programmes has not followed suit, which this paper aims to promote. Because of the unique nature of AD, programmes must flexibly apply existing interventions and techniques to programme designs which accommodate the degenerative course of the disease and the unique strain experienced by family caregivers. Existing literature is used to demonstrate successful and unsuccessful strategies, stressing the need for design and evaluation which apply creative and robust treatments, but do not compromise scientific rigour. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010703213 A
Classmark	EA: P6: PA: 4C: 64A
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