P3‐473: Service need among individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Abstract

rection among these factors, respectively. Results: There are six factors about caregiver burdens, including psychosocial burden, biological burden, negative thinking; people relationship, the dependence of patients, the ignominy burden. Moreover, there produced affective, tool, and information support factors, respectively, from the demand and satisfaction aspect. The reliability of each factor has greater than 0.6. Pearson Production Moment analysis revealed that psychosocial, biological burden factors were significant correlation with information and tool support factors, respectively. Furthermore, the dependence of dementia patient factor is marked significantly related with affective support factor. However, the negative thinking burden factor is significant negative correlation with information support. Conclusions: Armed with the results of above mentioned, the need of supports, in terms of information, tool, affective, for the caregiver burden of dementia family members is strong and not satisfied. Thus, to bridge the gap of the demand and satisfaction between dementia family members and multiple aspects supports is urgent.Background: Art Therapy is a human service profession. It offers opportunities to explore the problems and the personal potentialities by means of verbal and non-verbal expression and develop physical, cognitive, and emotional resources as well as the learning abilities through therapeutic experiences with several kinds of artistic languages. The use of Art Therapy suggests that the creative process can be a means of patients to reconcile emotional problems and facilitate the autoperception and the personal development. The act of caring of a relative with Alzheimer's disease often leads to a caregiver's overload, impacting on his mental and physical health. Consequently, several ways to intervene in the quality of life of the caregivers have been studied, using psychoeducational groups, short Psychoterapy, Art Therapy, and others. Objectives: To use Art therapy resources of gestaltic view in oder to minimize and prevent caregivers' overload of patients with Alzheimer's disease and improve their quality of life. Methods: 10 caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease have been selected and they will be divided into two groups of 5 people and each group is going to do Art therapy for six-month term, weekly, two-hour sessions. Also, the sessions are going to start with proposals of experiences related to the phases of life, emotional and corporal sensations, reflections on the role of the caregiver, following the plastic expression, with the purpose of self-knowledge, expansion of consciouness, search for identity and changes that help the life of the caregiver. Zarit overload scale and the quality of life scale will be applied in the begining and at the end of the sessions of Art therapy. Results: It is in progress. Conclusions: The study is a project and it has not been started officially, therefore, with the evidences in the international literature we are expecting that our study ...