Individualized support for informal caregivers of people with dementia - effectiveness of the German adaptation of REACH II.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individualized, outreach and structured multicomponent interventions are a promising intervention approach to relieve the burden of informal caregivers of people with dementia. In this study, we adapted and evaluated a multicomponent intervention (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health II, REACH II), which was developed in the USA, to the German health-care system. Therefore the project is called the German adaptation of REACH II (in German: Deutsche Adaptation der REACH II, DE-REACH).

Methods

The effectiveness of DE-REACH was examined in a randomized, controlled trial on 92 informal caregivers of people with dementia. The intervention comprised 12 individual two-weekly sessions (9 at home with the informal caregiver and 3 via telephone) and combined

SUBMITTER: Berwig M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5728045 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature