Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, D-60528 Frankfurt a. M., Germany.
Aging Ment Health. 2011 Apr;15(3):405-13. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2010.536135.
Dementia increasingly diminishes the ability to communicate. We aimed to develop and evaluate a psychosocial intervention program that focuses on communication in dementia care. This was intended to enhance the quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia and to reduce the burden on their informal caregivers.
A training program for informal caregivers of people with dementia was developed. The training combines the expertise of geriatric psychiatry, geriatric care, and educational psychology. Caregivers acquire and deepen competencies required to improve communication in dementia care. The training was evaluated with a pre-post-control group design and time-series analyses. Twenty-four informal caregivers participated in the study.
The results of the study provide evidence that TANDEM training increases caregivers' use of strategies that are relevant for communication in dementia care and the care receivers' QoL.
The results of research in this program show the relevance of including caregivers in interventions and the importance of communication for the QoL of people with dementia.
痴呆症逐渐削弱了沟通能力。我们旨在开发和评估一项专注于痴呆症护理沟通的心理社会干预计划。这旨在提高痴呆症患者的生活质量（QoL），并减轻他们的非正式照顾者的负担。
为痴呆症患者的非正式照顾者开发了一项培训计划。该培训结合了老年精神病学、老年护理和教育心理学的专业知识。照顾者获得并加深了改善痴呆症护理沟通所需的能力。该培训采用前后对照组设计和时间序列分析进行评估。24 名非正式照顾者参加了这项研究。
研究结果表明，TANDEM 培训增加了照顾者在痴呆症护理中使用相关沟通策略的能力，以及护理接受者的生活质量。
该计划研究的结果表明，将照顾者纳入干预措施的相关性以及沟通对痴呆症患者生活质量的重要性。
