Dementia Caregiver Intervention Research

Dementia caregiver intervention research: in search of clinical significance.

PURPOSE We reviewed intervention studies that reported dementia caregiver outcomes published since 1996, including psychosocial interventions for caregivers and environmental and pharmacological interventions for care recipients. Our goal was to focus on issues of clinical significance in caregiver intervention research in order to move the field toward a greater emphasis on achieving reliable ...

Dementia Caregiver Burden: a Research Update and Critical Analysis

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides an updated review of the determinants of caregiver burden and depression, with a focus on care demands and especially the differential effects of various neuropsychiatric symptoms or symptom clusters. Moreover, studies on caregivers for frontotemporal and Lewy body dementias were referred to in order to identify differences and similarities with the mains...

Dementia and caregiver stress.

Living with dementia: caregiver perspectives.

About four million Americans currently live with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or related forms of dementia. Because the disease process impairs language, insight, and judgment, family members become "caregivers." These caregivers, either in part or in full, often make decisions on patients' behalf. This Issue Brief summarizes a series of studies that describe how caregivers make decisions for AD pa...

Helping carers to care: the 10/66 dementia research group's randomized control trial of a caregiver intervention in Peru.

OBJECTIVE There is a need, in the absence of formal services, to design interventions aimed at improving the lives of people with dementia and their families. This study tested the effectiveness of the 10/66 caregiver intervention among people with dementia and their caregivers in Lima, Peru. METHOD DESIGN/PARTICIPANTS a randomized controlled trial was performed involving 58 caregivers of ...