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Dementia Care Research and Psychosocial Factors.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Background: People with dementia of all ages have a human right to equal access to quality health care. Despite evidence regarding its effectiveness, many people living with dementia lack access to evidence-based rehabilitation for promoting function and quality of life. The aims of this study were to 1) explore barriers to access to dementia rehabilitation; and 2) identify solutions which improve access to rehabilitation.
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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Salvation Army Hong Kong & Macau Command, Tai Po Multi-service Centre for Senior Citizen, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
Background: Understand individuals' self-perception of aging is crucial for promoting a positive aging experience, better health with good quality of life, addressing activities participation, and can help by advocating policies and interventions that support the diverse needs of an aging population. This study aims to examine the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of BAPQ (C-BAPQ) for the healthy older people by assessing the content validity, test-retest reliability, and correlational analyses with mental health by Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), quality of life by the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) and activity participation by the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool (MOHOST). Moreover, to study the factor structure of the Chinese version of BAPQ (C-BAPQ) by using exploratory factor analysis.
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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Background: Co-creation methods are increasingly being used in the research and development of technologies that support older adults living with dementia and their care partners to live well. Use of collaborative methods to engage with the dementia community helps to ensure that research processes and end solutions are sensitively designed, reflective of needs and values, and responsive to priorities. Engagement also has proximal benefits for older adults: Being involved in purposeful activity has been shown to positively impact health and wellbeing outcomes.
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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Houston, TX, USA.
Background: Approximately 10% of people living with Alzheimer's dementia (PWD) experience depression, yet behavioral interventions remain scarce. We developed an innovative depression intervention, Caregiver-Provided Life Review (C-PLR) based on life review therapy. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of training family caregivers in life review skills and evaluate the impact on depressive symptoms.
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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Familial frontotemporal dementia is an autosomal dominant heritable form of frontotemporal dementia, a form of dementia characterised by changes in personality, behaviour and communication which typically onsets in mid-life. Children of an affected parent are at 50% risk of inheriting the responsible genetic mutation and developing frontotemporal dementia themselves. Individuals living at-risk have high psychological morbidity, for example they report struggling with guilt and anxiety about risk to themselves and their children, decisions about whether to get tested, uncertainty about onset of symptoms, and see their risk as a barrier in life.
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