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Framing outcomes of post-diagnostic psychosocial interventions in dementia
— the Adaptation-Coping Model and adjusting to change | | Author(s) | Dawn Brooker, Rose-Marie Droes, Shirley Evans |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 21, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 13-21 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/wwop |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Psychiatric treatment ; Adjustment ; Emotions ; Quality of life ; Day services ; Day centres ; Projects ; Netherlands ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | The authors describe the Adaptation-Coping Model developed by Rose-Marie Dröes in the Netherlands, to frame the process of optimal adjustment for people diagnosed with dementia. This model is not well-known in English-speaking countries, but appears to have much to offer practitioners and researchers. As part of a large EU research project (MeetingDem), the authors translated and utilised this model in piloting the Dutch Meeting Centre Support Programme in the UK. They give their initial observations on this local community place-based approach, which is aimed at people diagnosed with dementia alongside their families and has proven benefits, and which the Adaptation-Coping Model underpins. Focus groups were undertaken with 9 people living with dementia and 6 family carers at the UK Meeting Centre pilot. Examples from these focus groups are provided, to illustrate different aspects of the model. The translated Adaptation-Coping (adjusting to change) Model provides a way for service users (people with dementia and families) to conceptualise their journey with dementia post-diagnosis, and potentially provides service providers and researchers with aims for treatment and support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170310210 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: LP: DR: DL: F:59: NM: NMC: 3E: 76H: 8 |
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