OBJECTIVE To assess the cost effectiveness of community based occupational therapy compared with usual care in older patients with dementia and their care givers from a societal viewpoint. DESIGN Cost effectiveness study alongside a single blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Memory clinic, day clinic of a geriatrics department, and participants' homes. Patients 135 patients aged > or...

This study examined whether formal care services delivered to frail older people's homes in France and Israel substitute for or complement informal support. The two countries have comparable family welfare systems but many historical, cultural and religious differences. Data for the respondents aged 75 or more years at the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHA...

Abstract As the ageing population in China continues to grow, more people will be living with long-term health conditions and require support from family care-givers. This scoping review therefore aims explore sources of stress coping mechanisms adopted by care-givers older relatives mainland China. Literature searches were conducted English (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO SCOPUS) Chinese (C...

Abstract Individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias often require substantial support from other people. Much of the care-giving is family members who eventually experience physical, emotional financial stress, depression fatigue. In Uganda, families are a cornerstone in providing care to individuals dementia. However, little known about psychosocial supports available care-give...

Intervention 72 care givers accompanied by >1 family member were allocated to the intervention and given group training in 7 weekly, 2 hour workshops based on a stress and coping theoretical model, by a multidisciplinary team including a nurse, educator, family therapist, and occupational therapist. Participants were told that the training was similar to that which a clinician or nurse’s aid wo...

Interpersonal and communication skills are 2 essential qualities of every physician. These are separate and distinct parts of the professional character of every physician. In pediatrics these abilities present even a higher impact.We performed a survey-type prospective study based on questionnaires on 100 subjects, equally divided into 4 groups: 25 children, 25 pediatricians, 25 care-givers (p...

Integrated care ICT Platform to support patients, care-givers and health/social professionals in the care of dementia and Parkinson's disease with training, empowerment, sensor-based data analysis and cooperation services based on user-friendly interfaces.

This thesis addresses the problem of supporting independent living of elderly people through IT-based homecare services. Independent living is seen as one way to deal with the consequences of an aging population (especially in industrialized countries), which include rising healthcare expenditures and a required shortage of healthcare professionals. Our main goal is to improve the service creat...

The childcare system in Lithuania is going through extensive changes order to ensure the preparation and assessment of people who want care for or adopt a child, on-call guardians have appeared, centres started operating all municipalities, unified agreement (carers), guardians, adoptive parents community children has been approved, as GIMK training counselling programme nursing home workers. I...