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Patient Relat Outcome Meas
January 2025
Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
Purpose: Being a young carer of a parent with dementia can be challenging, with many carers undertaking various practical and caring tasks. The weekend course Time to be young? gathers young carers, aiming to support them to cope with their challenges in everyday life. The aim of this study was to explore their role as a caregiver and the experienced impact of the course on their strategies of coping in their everyday life.
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December 2024
KITE, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Introduction: Virtual reality (VR) technology is increasingly used by researchers and healthcare professionals as a therapeutic intervention to improve the quality of life of persons living with dementia (PLwD). However, most VR interventions to date have mainly been explored in long-term or community care settings, with fewer being explored at home. Setting is important, given that the majority of PLwD live at home and are cared for by their family care partners.
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January 2025
Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Background: China has the largest percentage of people with dementia (PwD) around the world. And most of them are cared for by their family members. The purpose of this study was to identify the quality of life (QoL) of family caregivers of PwD in rural China and to investigate the mediating role of social support between caregiver burden and QoL under the guidance of a stress process model.
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January 2025
Emergency Department, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK
Aust Occup Ther J
February 2025
Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Introduction: Driving safety may be compromised in people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Occupational therapists assess and screen for driving safety in older people with cognitive impairment. However, little is known about their perspectives relating to these assessments.
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