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Useful services for families: research findings and directions — commentary
Author(s)	Susan Tester
Corporate Author	"What Works in Dementia Care" Symposium, Stirling, 1998
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 3 [Proceedings of the symposium held in Scotland, June 1998, Part 2], March 1999
Pages	pp 178-180
Keywords	Family care ; Stress ; Dementia ; Services ; Evaluation ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	Community care and support for family carers of people with dementia are complex areas to research. Disciplinary, organisational and professional boundaries - as well as conflicting interests of people with dementia and their carers, practitioners, policy-makers and service providers - need to be considered. Zarit et al's paper shows that there is a substantial body of literature which attempts to evaluate services in a systematic way. Tester's commentary focuses on the key issues arising from the paper: first, the main policy issues and usefulness of the existing research for policy; second, the main methodological issues, and strengths and weaknesses of existing research as summarised in their paper; and third, the implications for future research to inform policy and practice in community-based care for people with dementia and their carers. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990825238 A
Classmark	P6:SJ: QNH: EA: I: 4C: 3A:6KC
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