Results have been written in story form, and may help the reader understand the overall experience of how caregiver’s access support for family members with Alzheimer’s including the challenges these caregivers might encounter and the resources they have found. The findings also led to ...
Hope is a psychosocial resource that is essential for the psychological, spiritual, and physical well-being of family members caring for persons with demen... Wendy,Duggleby,Dawn,... - 《Bmc Geriatrics》 被引量: 13发表: 2013年 Social networks, befriending and support for family carers of pe...
Family caring responsibilities for people with dementia are made even more complicated by the economic, social and cultural expectations that underpin existing provision. Support for family carers is, therefore, an important policy topic across many countries. The focus of this paper is on the ...
Using a qualitative, descriptive design, we explored family members' understandings of dementia, whether they were aware that it was a terminal condition, and the ways they developed their understandings. Findings revealed that the majority of family members could not recognize the terminal nature ...
Still, a criticism regarding the support groups was that they focused on Alzheimer's disease and/or older persons with dementia and therefore not fully providing support for family members of persons with YOD or non-Alzheimer related dementias. We had so much in common and it was nice to ...
Most clients suffering from dementia are cared for in their homes by family members or significant others. These caregivers anguish about their family members' mental deterioration. As one caregiver said, “How do we keep our hearts open in hell? And why should we try?” Caregiving is as much...
The book provides essential information on the most important issues in dementia in nursing homes today, including meaningful activities, patient-/person-centered care, psychosocial interventions, challenging behavior, inclusion and support of family members, pain, staff training and education, communication...
This study reports on the first phase of an investigation aimed at adapting The Savvy Caregiver program, a successful family caregiving curriculum developed in the United States, for application in South India. Thirty family members caring for a person with dementia were interviewed regarding their ex...
“It means that family members that can't be there, for whatever reason, know that those things are till happening,” she says. 1. What inspired Reg Urbanowskit and his team to develop such robots? A. Helping aging people with dementia. B. Making caring for the elderly easier. C. ...
This creates particular problems regarding sexuality. If an individual does not discuss the values he or she would bring to consent to medical treatment with family members, there is the objective test to fall back on, and in the context of provision of medical treatment, that seems acceptable....