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By helping AD patients' caregivers to develop coping strategies and to increase their knowledge of the disease, we believe that the patient's QoL could improve.
Natural disasters and human conflict are two common occurrences leading caregivers to develop the capability to extend this standard of care into austere environments.
After the pilot ended, the first author worked with an additional team and additional agency (including youth and caregivers) to develop intervention components for youth and their foster parents to address emotion regulation issues.
Multiple articles espoused the benefits of a nurse in the home aimed at preventing crises by identifying potential problems and helping caregivers to develop new coping strategies [ 7, 12, 13, 17, 28, 30, 32, 39, 41].
Under these expectations, the characteristics of satisfactory services described by the caregivers were: (1) supporting caregivers to develop ability to cope with daily care challenges; (2) providing timely interventions in cases of care crises; and (3) relieving the psychological-emotional burden of caregivers by providing caregiver support groups.
The program also offers training for caregivers in order to simplify activities and to adapt them for future functional declines of the patient as well as to generalize strategies to other contexts, thus helping caregivers to develop an increased sense of self-efficacy.
Home care personnel, human factors engineers and other team members need to collaborate with clients and caregivers to develop and implement a palette of user-centered tools designed to meet the needs and limitations of seniors and to support medication management in the home [ 44].
Our findings showed a significant association between the need for care training and the monetary value placed on informal care by caregivers, highlighting caregiver needs to develop their coping skills and competencies and to improve their caring capabilities.
