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Community based occupational therapy for patients with dementia and their care givers — randomised controlled trial
Author(s)	Maud J L Graff, Myrra J M Vernooij-Dassen, Marjolein Thijssen
Journal title	British Medical Journal, vol 333 no 7580, 9 December 2006
Pages	pp 1196-1199
Source	http://www.bmj.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Informal care ; Occupational therapy ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Clinical surveys ; Netherlands.
Annotation	From April 2001 to January 2005, the authors recruited 135 people with mild to moderate dementia and aged 65+ from the memory clinic and day clinic of a department of geriatrics in the Netherlands. Patients were randomly assigned to the intervention, 10 sessions of occupational therapy over 5 weeks, including cognitive and behavioural interventions. The aim was to train patients in the use of aids to compensate for cognitive decline and caregivers in coping behaviours and supervision. The control group received the intervention at the end of the study. Occupational therapy improved patients' daily functioning and reduced the burden on the caregiver, despite the patients' limited learning ability. Effects were still present at 12 weeks, which justifies implementation of this intervention. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070125201 A
Classmark	EA: P6: LOH: L6G: 3G: 76H *
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