Author, Merle Varik, introduces her newly published article in ARJ, entitled: Launching support groups for informal caregivers of people living with dementia within participatory action research. “In our context, in Estonia, there is only modest psycho-emotional support for caregivers of people with dementia. Indeed, there is a lack of awareness about the disease. The informal […]
Read More...Abstract provided on behalf of the authors,  Jim Mann, Lillian Hung Research about patients with dementia in the context of acute care has been traditionally designed and carried out by researchers with little or no involvement of people with dementia. Moving away from the traditional way of conducting research on people with dementia, this study involved […]
Read More...Diagnosed with dementia (probable Alzheimer’s) in her early 80s, I first met Ana when she was 84 years of age. Unique in her way of life, Ana had lived on the same section of land nearly all her life. What is more, she had lived alone for over 35 years in the house she had […]
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