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Training families to provide care - effects on people with dementia
— commentary | | Author(s) | D Weaks |
| Corporate Author | "What Works in Dementia Care" Symposium, Stirling, 1998 |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 2 [Proceedings of the symposium held in Scotland, June 1998, Part 1], February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 116-117 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Training [welfare work]. |
| Annotation | The community psychiatric nursing team in Perth and Kinross - of which this commentator is a representative - works with people with dementia and their families in their own homes, and emphasises early diagnosis, early intervention and stress management. Their work subscribes to Linda Teri's term of "the family", and endorses the work of broadening educative input to "non-family" caregivers. Weaks' commentary on Teri's paper leads him to suggest the importance of the following factors: the quality of the relationship between the therapist (educator) and the recipient caregiver; the experience and training of the therapist (educator); the caregiver's preferred learning style; and the pre-morbid relationship of the caregiver and the person with dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825230 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QW |
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