Informal carers (families, friends and neighbours) provide the majority of care for persons with dementia [3]. Dementia can be overwhelming for carers of persons with dementia and can cause stress from physical, emotional and economic pressures [4,5,6]. Stretched health and care resources ...
Social network size was quantified using standard questions regarding the number of children, family, and friends that participants had and how often they interacted with them. Social network size was the number of these individuals seen at least once a month, as reported elsewhere.23 The mean (...
They suggest that they can assist family and friends with sharing time with the person with dementia. This is particularly relevant when dementia conditions, such as Alzheimer's Disease can be dehumanising, and prevents the person from re- lating their personal histories. This would suggest that ...
Just under two-thirds (60%) of people with dementia live in the community and are supported informally by family and friends [2]. There are more than 670,000 informal caregivers of people with dementia in the UK [3, 4] and more than 11 million in the USA [5]. Typically, the spouse...
‘living well is shaped by the physical, social and cultural surroundings, and by the effects of chronic illness not only on the affected individual but also on family members, friends and carers’. It also acknowledges the centrality of subjective perceptions and appraisals: ‘for each individual...
‘living well is shaped by the physical, social and cultural surroundings, and by the effects of chronic illness not only on the affected individual but also on family members, friends and carers’. It also acknowledges the centrality of subjective perceptions and appraisals: ‘for each individual...
33,34 Social network size was quantified with standard questions regarding the number of children, family, and friends the participants had and how often they interacted.10 Self-reported history of diabetes mellitus, heart disease, hypertension, thyroid disease, cancer, head injury, and stroke24 ...
‘living well is shaped by the physical, social and cultural surroundings, and by the effects of chronic illness not only on the affected individual but also on family members, friends and carers’. It also acknowledges the centrality of subjective perceptions and appraisals: ‘for each individual...
In more advanced stages, the behaviour * Mohsen Amiribesheli mamiribesheli@bmth.ac.uk 1 Department of Computing, North East Surrey College of Technology, Epsom, UK 2 Department of Computing and Informatics, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK of People with Dementia's (PwDs) changes ...
In the United Kingdom alone, it is estimated that around 670,000 family and close friends are providing unpaid care, such as practical, emotional, and financial support to people with dementia (Lakey et al., 2012), and that £11.6 billion of the £26.3 billion annual care costs of dem...