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Increasing community capacity to respond to dementing illnesses — process evaluation of the Community Outreach Education Program
Author(s)	Cathleen M Connell, Sara L Kole
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 18, no 3, September 1999
Pages	pp 305-324
Keywords	Dementia ; Services ; Community care ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Information services ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	The aim of the Community Outreach Education Program (COEP) is to disseminate information about the diagnosis, assessment, management and treatment of dementia to health care professionals, service providers, staff of community organisations and voluntary agencies, and family caregivers in four rural areas and two urban sites in Michigan. To accomplish this, outreach educational interventions based on a community-development model were developed in the Thumb Area, Upper Peninsula, North-east Michigan, Mid-Michigan, Detroit and Flint. The present study describes a process evaluation of the COEP in these six sites, using a multiple case study approach. Shared themes in the successful implementation of the on-site interventions, and in creating community capacity across the varied sites are discussed. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-991022202 A
Classmark	EA: I: PA: QK6: UV: 4C: 7T
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