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Despite the broad acceptance of the project a limited guideline-conformity as well as the diagnostic uncertainty suggests that the implemented training is only a first step towards GP guided dementia care. To extend GPs guided dementia care and to improve the quality of GPs dementia diagnostics and therapy sensitization of more GPs for active dementia care as well as supervised practical training will be necessary.

Despite the small study size we provide first strong evidence that early psychosocial counselling can reduce the development of depression in family caregivers. Early, professional counselling improves the quality of dementia care within a GP-based dementia care setting and it might stabilize and extend the home care duration of dementia patients.

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