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[P2–487]: WEB‐BASED CAREGIVER RESOURCE PORTAL: THE UCLA IMPROVING CAREGIVING FOR DEMENTIA (I‐CARED) PROGRAM
Author(s) -
Tan Zaldy S.,
Ramirez Karina,
Soh Michael
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.06.1144
Subject(s) - dementia , login , resource (disambiguation) , family caregivers , medicine , nursing , psychological intervention , psychology , disease , computer science , computer network , pathology
To create ‘dementia-friendly’environment, some set of the mural with elderly familiar were painted on the walls of the village. And we operated an 8-seesion cognitive enhancing program composed of dementia preventing physical exercises and brain activities such as cup stacking, solving puzzles, making handicraft, and so on. The effectiveness of this project was evaluated as the changes in dementia awareness, cognitive function, and depressive symptoms. We also evaluated the satisfaction index of this project. The collected data were analyzed viaMicrosoft Excel 2010.Results: We designated the So-Su village located in Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do as a rural ‘dementia-friendly’ village. This project was carried out with a total of 24 people living in this community from August to November in 2016. The awareness of dementia in score showed no significant difference. MMSE-DS was higher in score from 22.666.9 to 24.565.6 after the project than before (p<0.01). Geriatric Depression Scale(GDS) score was significantly higher from 4.864.6 to 4.164.4 (p<0.05). Ninety-one percent of community members were satisfied with this project. Conclusions: Jeollabukdo Provincial Dementia Center designated a rural ‘dementia-friendly’ village and carried out a pilot study of the project. This project led to improving the cognitive function and decreasing depressive symptoms among residents. Satisfaction index of this project was high, 91%. But the improvement of dementia awareness was not achieved. It is thought that a more direct and experiencing education to PWD is needed to improve awareness of dementia in order to establish the ‘dementia-friendly’ communities.