TY - JOUR
T1 - Empirically based treatments for family caregiver distress
T2 - what works and where do we go from here?
AU - Coon, David
AU - Evans, Bronwynne
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Family caregivers of older adults with significant cognitive and/or physical impairment are at increased risk for both psychiatric and physical morbidity. This article examines the research literature dedicated to the development of effective interventions to reduce distress and enhance well-being for these caregivers. Using a recent empirically based treatment (EBT) review of the literature as a backdrop, 3 overarching types of interventions were described as effective: psychoeducational skill building, psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral in focus), and multicomponent (using a combination of at least 2 approaches such as education, family meetings, and skill building). Suggestions are made to facilitate future caregiver intervention research and translation of EBTs into the community including the need to expand rigorous research with caregivers of older adults facing problems other than dementia, including older patients with psychiatric problems; develop and test interventions designed for transitions into and out of the caregiving roles, as well as interventions designed to improve physical health outcomes and promote health behaviors; create linkages between interventions at multiple levels of delivery; extend caregiver intervention work with underrepresented ethnic and racial populations; and investigate the cost-effectiveness of caregiver interventions.
AB - Family caregivers of older adults with significant cognitive and/or physical impairment are at increased risk for both psychiatric and physical morbidity. This article examines the research literature dedicated to the development of effective interventions to reduce distress and enhance well-being for these caregivers. Using a recent empirically based treatment (EBT) review of the literature as a backdrop, 3 overarching types of interventions were described as effective: psychoeducational skill building, psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral in focus), and multicomponent (using a combination of at least 2 approaches such as education, family meetings, and skill building). Suggestions are made to facilitate future caregiver intervention research and translation of EBTs into the community including the need to expand rigorous research with caregivers of older adults facing problems other than dementia, including older patients with psychiatric problems; develop and test interventions designed for transitions into and out of the caregiving roles, as well as interventions designed to improve physical health outcomes and promote health behaviors; create linkages between interventions at multiple levels of delivery; extend caregiver intervention work with underrepresented ethnic and racial populations; and investigate the cost-effectiveness of caregiver interventions.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 19998566
AN - SCOPUS:77449103441
SN - 0197-4572
VL - 30
SP - 426
EP - 436
JO - Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
JF - Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
IS - 6
ER -