Effective psychosocial intervention for family caregivers lengthens time elapsed before nursing home placement of individuals with dementia: a five-year follow-up study.
Författare
Summary, in English
ABSTRACTBackground: This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention for family caregivers in delaying nursing home placement of individuals with dementia.Methods: The participants comprised 153 family caregivers of persons with dementia who underwent intervention and 155 family caregivers who did not. The intervention consisted of five weekly counselling sessions and a three-month conversation group. All patients with dementia underwent a standardized assessment of cognitive and functional ability. The degree of burden and the subjective health of family caregivers were assessed. Participation continued until the patient moved to a nursing home or died, or until five years of living at home had passed.Results: There were significant delays (6 months) in nursing home placement, and a longer time at home for persons with dementia with adult children as caregivers in the intervention group compared to the control group at follow-up (p = 0.004). A greater delay of institutionalization was found where intervention-group caregivers were daughters (p = 0.028). The proportional hazards regression showed factors associated with nursing home placement to be the family caregiver's influence on intervention (OR = 1.55, p = 0.019), caregiver gender (OR = 0.66, p = 0.033) and the patient's severity of dementia (OR = 1.45, p = 0.002).Conclusion: Family caregiver intervention for adult children was significantly associated with prolonged time to nursing home placement.
Avdelning/ar
- Geriatric Medicine
- Geriatrik
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1177-1192
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Psychogeriatrics
Volym
20
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Geriatric Medicine
- Geriatrics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1741-203X