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Assessing carers' training needs
— a pilot inquiry | | Author(s) | S A Turner, H P Street |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 3, no 2, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp 173-178 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Training [welfare work] ; Evaluation ; Social surveys ; Pilot. |
| Annotation | As part of a European Union (EU) project to develop a training package for people working with family caregivers of older people with dementia, the authors conducted a study to assess carers' needs. Although much has been published about the stresses and burden of caring, there is an absence of tools for the assessment of needs for training. Focus groups of carers and professionals identified areas to be explored in semi-structured interviews; 30 additional carers were interviewed. All met the Carers' (Recognition and Services) Act definition of providing "regular and substantial" care to their relative. Two-thirds of carers were willing to attend groups. All carers wanted information about dementia. The topics rated most highly after that were those about how to get help and the best way to interact with services. Carers also wanted specific information about managing their relative's dementia: memory aids, difficult behaviour, and managing risk and communication. Information about practical aspects of caring were rated more highly by those willing to attend groups. Coping with stress, loss and a carer's own emotions were also deemed important. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990715233 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QW: 4C: 3F: 4UC |
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