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There’s no apprenticeship for Alzheimer’s: The caring relationship when an older person experiencing dementia falls [PDF]

, 2011
© Cambridge University Press 2011Older people experiencing dementia are twice as likely to fall with consequences of serious injury, reduction in everyday activity, admission to long-term care and mortality.
McIntyre, AE, Reynolds, F
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Improving care for people with dementia: development and initial feasibility study for evaluation of life story work in dementia care

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2016
Background: Improving dementia care quality is an urgent priority nationally and internationally. Life story work (LSW) is an intervention that aims to improve individual outcomes and care for people with dementia and their carers.
Kate Gridley, Jenni Brooks, Yvonne Birks, Kate Baxter, Gillian Parker   +4 more
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Transitions to informal care in Great Britain during the 1990s [PDF]

, 2002
Objectives: To estimate annual changes and trends in the population of informal carers and to investigate transitions to caregiving by age, gender, locus of care, and level of involvement.
Hirst, Michael Anthony
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Increasing self‐efficacy and knowledge in carer training: Hispanic versus Caucasian

Nursing Open, 2020
Aim Nurses are teachers to their patients and need to know best practices for diverse families living with dementia. Little is known about Hispanic beliefs around dementia knowledge and self‐efficacy that may have an impact on the learning situation ...
Leisa Easom, Ke Wang, Gayle Alston
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Caregivers of People with Disabilities in Processes of Social Inclusion in the Municipality Madrid, Cundinamarca

Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2015
Introduction: The social inclusion of people with disabilities (PWD), dependent on many economic, social, political and cultural factors that affect their social development.
Diana Camargo Rojas, Elvis Castro Alzate, Hebe Hernández Romero, Heidy Maldonado Salgado, Ivonn Lorena Cárdenas, Lorena Carvajal, María del Pilar Cuervo Polanco   +6 more
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Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia and the challenges for family carers: systematic review [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Tailored psychosocial interventions can help families to manage behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD), but carer responses to their relative's behaviours contribute to the success of support programmes. Aims: To understand
Alexandra Feast, Allegri, Barley, Brækhus, Crellin, Diehl, Esme Moniz-Cook, Fiona Poland, Georgina Charlesworth, Ingebretsen, Logsdon, Martin Orrell, Moniz-Cook, Nagarantnam, Nina Melunsky, Nygaard   +15 more
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Perceptions of caring for children with disabilities: Experiences from Moshi, Tanzania

African Journal of Disability, 2013
Background: Although there exist laws, policies and standards in Tanzania that serve to protect and improve the lives of children with disabilities, the individual human experiences and feelings of the carers and parents still remain the realities of ...
Anna McNally, Hasheem Mannan
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Scaling a group intervention to promote caregiver mental health in Uttarakhand, India: A mixed-methods implementation study

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2023
Caregivers are integral to health and social care systems in South Asian countries yet are themselves at higher risk of mental illness. Interventions to support caregiver mental health developed in high-income contexts may be contextually inappropriate ...
Disha Agarwal, Christopher R. Bailie, Samson Rana, Laxman Balan, Nathan J. Grills, Kaaren Mathias   +5 more
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ConnectUp: Co-Designing an Online Social Connection Platform with People with Disabilities and Carers

Behavioral Sciences
People with disabilities (PwD) and carers report higher levels of isolation and lower physical activity (PA) participation than the general population. Yet, both PA and social connection are linked to improved health and quality of life.
Dominika Kwasnicka, Sophie Jokovich, Chelsea Atherton, Emily Joy, Genevieve Mullen, Joanne McVeigh, Stuart Jenkinson, Jessica Hatton, Paul Rogers, Ashul Shah, Enrique Mergelsberg, Craig Thompson   +11 more
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Supporting carers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia: evaluating change in nursing practice following training [PDF]

, 2003
<i>Background</i>: United Kingdom legislation and clinical standards for schizophrenia challenge nurses to re-examine the support that they provide to carers.
Abrouzzese, Atkin, Atkinson, Berg, Bernheim, Brooker, Brooker, Casey, Cervero, Chambers, CSBS, CSBS, Cuijpers, Dixon, DoH, DoH, Evandrou, Gall, Goodman, Gray, Hancock, Hatfield, Hatfield, Henwood, Hirst, James, Kellett, Magorrian, Mari, Milleken, Neary, Nolan, Nolan, Nolan, Nolan, Nolan, Nolan, Oldridge, Provencher, Repper, Rose, Scheller, Simpson, Spaniol, Szmukler, Tennakoon, Twigg, Waddell, Walker, Warner, Winefield, Wray   +51 more
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