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Group living homes for older people with dementia
— the effects on psychological distress of informal caregivers | | Author(s) | Selma te Boekhorst, Anne Margriet Pot, Marja Depla |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 6, November 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp 761-768 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Group homes ; Nursing homes ; Informal care ; Stress ; Well being ; Comparison ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Nursing home care in the Netherlands is increasingly being directed towards group living homes where residents can spend the rest of their lives. In this quasi-experimental study, 67 primary informal caregivers in 19 group living homes and 90 primary informal caregivers in seven regular nursing homes filled in a questionnaire upon admission (baseline measurement) of their relative and 6 months later (effect measurement). Linear and logistic regression analyses were performed on on three outcomes of psychological distress: psychopathology, caregiving competence, and caregiver burden. There were no significant differences in caregiver competence and caregiver burden between the two types of setting, although there was a trend towards less psychopathology in group living homes after adjustment for confounding. Informal caregivers of residents in group living homes do not have less psychological distress than informal caregivers of residents in regular nursing homes. Although there was a trend towards less psychopathology in informal carers in group living homes, the amount of symptoms remained very high in both caregiver groups. This means that the psychological well-being of caregivers deserves the continuing attention of health care providers, also after admittance of their relative to a nursing care facility. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090402207 A |
| Classmark | EA: KLN: LHB: P6: QNH: D:F:5HH: 48: 76H |
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