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Effectiveness of respite care in supporting informal caregivers of persons with dementia
— a systematic review | | Author(s) | Sophie Vandepitte, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Koen Putman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 31, no 12, December 2016 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, December 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1277-1288 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Living in the community ; Informal care ; Family care ; Respite care ; Well being ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Supporting informal caregivers of persons with dementia is considered to be an effective strategy for improving the wellbeing of caregivers and care recipients and for delaying nursing home placement. This systematic review aimed to investigate the effectiveness of different types of respite care in supporting informal caregivers of persons with dementia. A systematic literature search was conducted using Web of Science and PubMed, and the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies was used to assess the methodological quality. Randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies, pretest-posttest studies without a control group, and cohort studies were included. 17 papers met the inclusion criteria. It was found that day care services are effective in decreasing caregiver burden and behavioural problems in persons with dementia, but they also accelerate time to nursing home admission. The results of temporary residential admission are rather mixed and show unexpected adverse effects on both caregivers and care recipients. High-quality comparable evidence on community-based respite care is still lacking although earlier qualitative evidence indicated promising results. Unlike in previous reviews the authors were able to draw some conclusions about the effectiveness of some types of respite care. However there is still a need for new intervention studies measuring the impact of respite care, especially in-home respite care programmes, on the caregiver, the care recipient and health care resource utilisation. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170217241 A |
| Classmark | EA: K4: P6: P6:SJ: KTD: D:F:5HH: 4C |
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