The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context

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Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Alexandra
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Dias, Isabel, Lopes, Alexandra
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/124638
Resumo: With the aging of the population and the increase of social services tackling their needs, it has been increasing the concern about the qualifications of formal caregivers, with the aim of continuous improvement of the quality of the services they provide to the elderly. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in an institutional context. It follows a quasi-experimental design where the 97 formal caregivers that have participated in the study came from two different institutions. They were randomly selected to participate in an educational support program on dementia, with two groups formed: a control group and an experimental group. Pre and post training tests were used to evaluate knowledge and perceptions about dementia in old age. Findings suggest that the impact of the educational support program has improved knowledge and perceptions about dementia in old age among formal caregivers.
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title The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
spellingShingle The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
Miranda, Alexandra
Ciências Sociais
Social sciences
title_short The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
title_full The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
title_fullStr The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
title_full_unstemmed The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
title_sort The impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in the institutional context
author Miranda, Alexandra
author_facet Miranda, Alexandra
Dias, Isabel
Lopes, Alexandra
author_role author
author2 Dias, Isabel
Lopes, Alexandra
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Miranda, Alexandra
Dias, Isabel
Lopes, Alexandra
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ciências Sociais
Social sciences
topic Ciências Sociais
Social sciences
description With the aging of the population and the increase of social services tackling their needs, it has been increasing the concern about the qualifications of formal caregivers, with the aim of continuous improvement of the quality of the services they provide to the elderly. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of an educational support program on formal caregivers of elderly people with dementia in an institutional context. It follows a quasi-experimental design where the 97 formal caregivers that have participated in the study came from two different institutions. They were randomly selected to participate in an educational support program on dementia, with two groups formed: a control group and an experimental group. Pre and post training tests were used to evaluate knowledge and perceptions about dementia in old age. Findings suggest that the impact of the educational support program has improved knowledge and perceptions about dementia in old age among formal caregivers.
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