Dementia represents one of the major health and societal challenges of the 21st century. At the same time, new developments and insights in the fields of prevention strategies, prodromal disease stages, and disease-modifying drugs are shaping...
Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is an evidence-based psychosocial treatment for people living with dementia. The manualised intervention aims to improve cognitive and social skills through multisensory, reminiscence-oriented and everyday...
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Psychotherapy with older aged adults is considered particularly challenging, especially when cognitive impairments are present. Psychotherapists are faced with the question of how and where they can effectively treat. Acute geriatric psychiatric...
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This article reports practice-oriented psychotherapeutic experiences of the Tele.TAnDem intervention (Psychotherapeutic Support for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia) as part of the BerTA study (Counseling and Therapy for Family Caregivers;...
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The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy for people with early-stage dementia (MmbD) in terms of the group participants’ depression, quality of life, and self-efficacy...
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The aim of this pilot study was to examine the association between anticipatory grief and the frequency and duration of everyday visits by family caregivers of people with dementia living in nursing homes, as well as to assess the mediating role of...
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