Caregivers as Therapeutic Agents in Dementia Care: The Context of Caregiving and the Evidence Base for Interventions

摘要: Given the public health magnitude of dementia and its profound extreme ripple effects on families, caregiving warrants a focused discussion to understand this particular care context. Thus, focus chapter is caregiving. The authors integrate classify existing evidence for interventions family caregivers people with dementia, in novel extension typical reviews, provide guiding framework how effective integration “best” can help support delivery decision making providers when selecting evidence-based services families need. They first discuss therapeutic roles that assume understanding needs, then examine robust corpus intervention studies specific their relative strengths limitations. Finally, future directions developing clinical applicability are outlined.