Provision of a family-care seminar for 64 demented individuals using Takeuchi's theory

• KODAIRA Megumi

  International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School

• TAKEUCHI Takahito

  International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• A family-led dementia-alleviation program

抄録

In recent years, programs aimed at relieving dementia symptoms have been implemented nationwide. In these programs, dementia patients are cared for by their family members using Takeuchi's theory. The authors have provided education for these caregivers. In the present study, we held a 6-month family-care seminar for 64 dementia patients and their family caregivers at 3 sites.Of the 141 dementia symptoms exhibited by these patients before the seminar, 92(65.2%) were resolved and 15 (10.6%) almost completely disappeared after the seminar(total: 75.8%). According to a questionnaire survey involving their family caregivers,57.8% of them felt that patients showed very or slightly favorable changes in their dementia symptoms; this percentage was lower than that of actually resolved symptoms(75.8%). Thus, the disappearance of dementia symptoms did not lead to family caregivers’ positive evaluation of symptom changes. Our findings suggest that dementia symptoms can be resolved or relieved depending on care, and that there is a need to adopt continued approaches in a manner so that the anxiety of family caregivers will be reduced, and they will recognize changes in their patients’ symptoms.

収録刊行物

• Asian Journal of Human Services

  Asian Journal of Human Services 9 (0), 1-16, 2015

  一般社団法人 Asian Society of Human Services

キーワード

• Takeuchi’s theory
• family care
• dementia

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205512286080
• NII論文ID: 130005107389
• DOI: 10.14391/ajhs.9.1
• ISSN: 2188059X
• ISSN: 21863350
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ajhs/9/0/9_1/_pdf
• 本文言語コード: en
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