Authors
Steven H Belle, Louis Burgio, Robert Burns, David Coon, Sara J Czaja, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Laura N Gitlin, Julie Klinger, Kathy Mann Koepke, Chin Chin Lee, Jennifer Martindale-Adams, Linda Nichols, Richard Schulz, Sidney Stahl, Alan Stevens, Laraine Winter, Song Zhang, Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) II Investigators
Publication date
2006/11/21
Journal
Annals of internal medicine
Volume
145
Issue
10
Pages
727-738
Publisher
American College of Physicians
Description
Background
Caring for a family member with dementia is extremely stressful, contributes to psychiatric and physical illness among caregivers, and increases the risk for caregiver death. Finding better ways to support family caregivers is a major public health challenge.
Objective
To test the effects of a structured multicomponent intervention on quality of life and clinical depression in caregivers and on rates of institutional placement of care recipients in 3 diverse racial or ethnic groups.
Design
Randomized, controlled trial.
Setting
In-home caregivers in 5 U.S. cities.
Participants
212 Hispanic or Latino, 219 white or Caucasian, and 211 black or African-American caregivers and their care recipients with Alzheimer disease or related disorders.
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