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Medical and social adult day service programs
— a comparison of characteristics, dementia clients and their family caregivers | | Author(s) | Sara A Leitsch, Steven H Zarit, Aloen Townsend |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 23, no 4, July 2001 |
| Pages | pp 473-497 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Day services ; Family care ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An investigation of 261 older adults with dementia and their family caregivers representing 36 adult day services (ADS) in New Jersey (NJ) found that the main differences were primarily in services offered. Medical programmes offered more physical care, personal care and care planning services. Family caregivers rated social programmes to be more home-like, to have less institutional elements, and to have increased quality of intervention between staff and clients. Throughout a 3-month period, there were no significant differences in levels of caregivers' stress or well-being, or care recipients' impairments between the models. Caregivers using ADS medical models experienced greater financial strain over the cost of ADS. This study failed to confirm claims of differential advantages by proponents of each model, and instead found evidence to suggest that the demands of caring for someone with dementia result in a convergence of approaches to the dimensions investigated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010803206 A |
| Classmark | EA: NM: P6:SJ: QNH: 7T |
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