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| Caring and coping with loss in dementia: pilot study | | Author(s) | Karen Moore, Carolien Lamers, Marie Claire Shankland |
| Journal title | PSIGE Newsletter, no 64, March 1998 |
| Publisher | Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 13-16 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Spouses as carers ; Family care ; Children ; Psychology [care] ; Pilot ; Sheffield. |
| Annotation | Funded by Community Health Sheffield's Service Improvement and Development Programme, the 2-year Caring and Coping with Loss in Dementia Project began in July 1996. The proposed psycho-social intervention aimed to develop a facilitator led carers support programme focusing on emotional and problem solving aspects of caring for and coping with the `loss' of a relative with dementia. This article reports on the procedure and findings of the pilot phase, comprising two carer groups: 8 spouse carers, and 5 children as carers. Findings suggest that participation in the psycho-social intervention yielded some benefits for both spousal and child carers of dementia sufferers. Lower levels of anxiety and insomnia were reported post intervention. Sense of competence also significantly improved for carers, both in terms of satisfaction with caregiving and perceptions of care received. The change in management/coping strategies adopted suggests that carers have reviewed what works for them and what does not. However, without the presence of a comparative control group, it is difficult to attribute with any certainty, any change in carer status to the intervention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980902220 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SN: P6:SJ: SBC: QN: 4UC: 85C |
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