Who participates in psychosocial interventions for caregivers of patients with dementia?

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-86

  Wettstein, Albert ^a,b   Schmid, Regula ^a   König, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b City of Zurich Medical Services   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Education; Intervention, psychosocial; Socioeconomic data

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COHORT STUDIES; COUNSELING; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NURSING HOMES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 3042685346     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077814     Document Type: Article

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