- Title
- Intervention for an Australian carer of a person with dementia: A single case study
- Creator
- Bell-Weinberg, Karen; Kelly, Michelle
- Relation
- Clinical Case Studies Vol. 23, Issue 5, p. 379-398
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15346501241245434
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Caring for a person with dementia can negatively impact the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of an informal carer. Providing complex and challenging care often results in carer burden, stress, and distress, which can continue even when the care recipient transitions into an aged care facility. This case study aims to demonstrate that optimising carer support, knowledge, skill acquisition, and promotion of wellbeing benefits carers and those they care for across contexts. It provides a weekly account of an informal Australian carer’s experience with the STrAtegies for RelaTives (START) manualised intervention program. The study used reliable change indices, standardised measures, and carer surveys to provide insights into the carer’s experience of the program and outcomes during and after the therapy. The results showed reliable and clinically significant change, demonstrating an improvement in all measures. The carer’s mood symptoms and their perceived burden of care decreased. The carer also reported decreased dementia symptoms in their care recipient. Both the carer and the care recipient experienced increased quality of life. These findings are consistent with recent literature on the feasibility of the START program and are aligned with the National Dementia Plan.
- Subject
- coping; dementia; dyadic; family carer; intervention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1511789
- Identifier
- uon:56548
- Identifier
- ISSN:1534-6501
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Language
- eng
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