Handbook on Dementia Caregiving: Evidence-Based Interventions for Family Caregivers

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Richard Schulz, PhD
Springer Publishing Company, 9 feb 2000 - 344 pagine

This collection provides a comprehensive analysis of intervention approaches to dementia caregiving. It reviews the existing knowledge and provides a conceptual framework for organizing caregiver interventions of all types. Of special interest is the design of an intervention study for a culturally diverse community. The volume concludes with a discussion of how to translate intervention research into public policy, with an assessment of the future of caregiving and caregiving intervention research.

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Unique Challenges Experienced by Family Caregivers
1
A TheoreticalConceptual Framework for Intervention Approaches to Caregiving
33
A Review of Research 1990 to Present
61
4 The Pragmatics of Implementing Intervention Studies in the Community
127
5 Development and Implementation of Intervention Strategies for Culturally Diverse Caregiving Populations
151
6 Measurement Issues in Intervention Research
187
Why and How Does Intervention Work?
225
Translating Research into Practice
249
Implications for Intervention Research
283
Index
320
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Richard Schulz, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology, Sociology, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Associate Director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pittsburgh.

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