Home is where the future is: The BrightFocus Foundation consensus panel on dementia care

QM Samus, BS Black, D Bovenkamp, M Buckley… - Alzheimer's & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction A national consensus panel was convened to develop recommendations on
future directions for home-based dementia care (HBDC). Methods The panel summarized …

Measuring the needs of family caregivers of people with dementia: An assessment of current methodological strategies and key recommendations

LR Bangerter, JM Griffin, SH Zarit… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
While dementia caregivers are regarded as a population with high unmet needs, there is
little consensus as to how caregivers' needs should be conceptualized and measured. This …

Caregivers as therapeutic agents in dementia care: The context of caregiving and the evidence base for interventions

LN Gitlin, N Hodgson - Family caregiving in the new normal, 2015 - Elsevier
Given the public health magnitude of dementia and its profound and extreme ripple effects
on families, dementia caregiving warrants a focused discussion to understand this particular …

Psychoeducational program for the family member caregivers of people with dementia to reduce perceived burden and increase patient's quality of life: A randomized …

NM Tawfik, NA Sabry, H Darwish… - Journal of primary …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Dementia is one of the world's greatest public health issues. Most people with
dementia receive home care, and family members are vulnerable to feeling burdened and …

Differences and commonalities of home-based care arrangements for persons living with dementia in Germany–a theory-driven development of types using multiple …

J Dreyer, JM Bergmann, K Köhler, I Hochgraeber… - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Most persons with dementia live at home and want to stay there as long as
possible. In most cases, informal carers such as spouses or children care for them. Together …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with unmet needs among African-American dementia care providers

PJ Desin, AM Caban-Holt, EL Abner… - … of gerontology & …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Racial and ethnic minorities currently comprise 20% of the US population; in 2050, this
figure is expected to rise to 42%. As a result, Alzheimer's disease (AD), the 5 th leading …

Efficacy of a multi-component psychosocial intervention program for caregivers of persons living with neurocognitive disorders, Alexandria, Egypt: A randomized …

ZN Shata, MR Amin, HM El-Kady… - Avicenna Journal of …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Background: Unlike other chronic diseases, dementia caregiving is associated with
enormous psychological burden, which stresses the need for caregivers-directed …

Home-based interventions targeting persons with dementia: What is the evidence and where do we go from here?

LN Gitlin, NA Hodgson, SSW Choi - Dementia care: An evidence-based …, 2016 - Springer
Most persons with dementia live at home either alone or with family members over the
course of this long, progressive and terminal condition. With disease progression, most …

Preferred type, timing and format of dementia information: A cross‐sectional survey of carers of people living with dementia

M Berghout, A Waller, N Lachapelle… - … journal on ageing, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To clarify the unmet information needs of carers of people living with dementia,
including the stage of their care journey at which topics become relevant, and the preferred …

Predictors of perceived social support for patients with dementia: a mixed-methods study

S Yang, Y Zhang, S Xie, Y Chen, D Jiang… - … Interventions in Aging, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Perceived social support (PSS) is closely linked to health outcomes in dementia
patients. However, its continuous benefits are unclear. This mixed-methods study examined …