Treating clients and families together in an Alzheimer day care center
Ruth M. Tappen
Bok Engelsk
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| Opplysninger | Abstract: Functional skills training techniques and effective communication strategies previously found to improve function and decrease behavioral problems in cognitively impaired nursing home residents were taught to family members in tandem with their introduction to an Alzheimer day care center. Compared to non-treatment control clients at the center,treated Alzheimer patients were found to have significantly improved ability to communicate and to exhibit less disoriented withdrawn, depressed or anxious behaviors. Treated patients did not, however,improve significantly over controls inthe ability to perform the basic activities of daily living, and their families did not perceive their caregiving burden to have been significantly reduced. Results are interpreted as cautiosly supportive of efforts to develop therapeutically-oriented programming in day care and suppportive of patient management as a joint responsibility of professionals and family caregivers.
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