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Effects of supporting community-living demented patients and their caregivers — a randomized trial
Author(s)	Ulla Eloniemi-Sulkava, Irma-Leena Notkola, Maija Hentinen
Journal title	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 49, no 10, October 2001
Pages	pp 1282-1287
Keywords	Dementia ; Living in the community ; Informal care ; Community care ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Finland.
Annotation	The placement of demented patients in long-term care can be deferred with the support of a dementia family care co-ordinator. The authors report on 100 Finnish patients with dementia age 65+, living at home, with the primary support of informal caregivers, allocated at random to an intervention group of 53 or a control group of 47. Intervention patients were provided with a 2-year programme of systematic, comprehensive support by a dementia family care co-ordinator. During the first months, the rate of institutionalisation was significantly lower in the intervention than the control group, but the benefit decreased over time. However, the results suggest that the intervention might be especially beneficial to patients with severe dementia. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011115518 A
Classmark	EA: K4: P6: PA: LHB:QKH: 3J: 76L
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