Incorporating family therapy into asthma group intervention: a randomized waitlist-controlled trial.

Asthma psychoeducational programs have been found to be effective in terms of symptom-related outcome. They are mostly illness-focused, and pay minimal attention to systemic/familial factors. This study evaluated a novel asthma psychoeducation program that adopted a parallel group design and incorporated family therapy.

Living with early-stage dementia: the perspective of older Chinese people.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to describe the lived experiences of people with early-stage dementia and their ways of coping with the illness.

Background: Emerging models of subjective experience and coping with early dementia have been developed in Western cultures. Understanding how Chinese people with early-stage dementia adjust and cope is an important starting point in developing interventions that can enhance their adaptive coping.