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| Family caregiver acceptance and use of environmental strategies provided in an occupational therapy | | Author(s) | Mary A Corcoran, Laura N Gitlin |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 19, no 1, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 1-20 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Family care ; Attitude ; Occupational therapy [domiciliary] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors describe a home-based occupational therapy intervention designed to enhance the skills of 100 family caregivers in using the physical and social environment to address troublesome behaviours and dependency associated with the progression of dementia. Of the nine problem areas that formed the focus of intervention, the issues most frequently identified by caregivers as problematic included caregiver-centred concerns, reactions, wandering and incontinence. Caregivers were willing to try a total of 1,068 strategies offered as part of intervention; of these, 869 were subsequently used independently by caregivers. Understanding which strategies were accepted and used in this study provides knowledge from which to enhance occupational therapy practice with this section of the population. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020220208 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DP: NK:LOH: 7T |
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