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The impact on carers of behavioural difficulties in dementia: A pilot study on management
Author(s) -
Hinchliffe A. C.,
Hyman Inge,
Blizard Bob,
Livingston Gill
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930070807
Subject(s) - dementia , rating scale , intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychiatry , general health questionnaire , distressing , cognition , clinical psychology , medicine , gerontology , mental health , developmental psychology , chemistry , disease , pathology
Sixteen day centre attenders with dementia and their carers were interviewed. The cognitive and behavioural impairments of subjects with dementia were assessed using the Mini‐Mental State and the Stockton Geriatric Behaviour Rating Scale. Carers were assessed using the GHQ(28) as a screen for psychiatric morbidity. Where psychological intervention programmes were successful in reducing behaviour identified by carers as particularly distressing, carer GHQ fell. Future studies are needed.