The impact of adopting person‐centred care approach for people with Alzheimer's on professional caregivers' burden: An interventional study

Abstract

This study described the impact of adopting person-centred care approach for people with Alzheimer's disease on professional caregivers' burden. The participants were subjected to a 4-week structured training programme about person-centred care. The programme's effectiveness was proven by using the Global Behavior Scale. Then a qualitative descriptive phenomenological approach was used to explore the impact of applying this programme on professional caregivers' burden. Data were collected from a sample of 10 professional caregivers using semi-structured interviews. A total of three themes were identified: acceptance of disease-related behaviours of people with Alzheimer's, therapeutic understanding of people with Alzheimer's feelings (empathy) and enhanced caregivers' adaptation to people with Alzheimer's demands (resiliency). Findings suggested that adopting person-centred care approach for people with Alzheimer's disease reduces professional caregivers' burden.

The Person Centered approach in Gerontology: New validity evidence of the Staff Assessment Person-directed Care Questionnaire

“…With respect to Burnout , the PDC has negative correlation with the emotional exhaustion ( r = -.41) and depersonalization ( r = -.24) factors, and a slight positive correlation with the personal accomplishment factor ( r = .45). These results are in line with expectations as PCC requires motivated professionals and, at the same time, drives towards work which is distinguished by more autonomy and responsibility on the part of the elderly care workers, and by closer, more humane treatment of service users, characteristics which can act as preventative factors in burnout ( De la Fuente et al, 2015 , Hayajneh and Shehadeh, 2014 , Passalacqua and Harwood, 2012 , Schrijnemaekers et al, 2003 , Van del Pol-Grevelink et al, 2012 , Vargas et al, 2014 ).…”

Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?

“…This subsequent analysis presented some challenges, as PCC and PM are vague concepts [5,9,18,23,40,41], creating difficulties to determine which ideas in the literature are truly central to either concept and which merely relate to some practical implementation thought (rightly or wrongly) to exemplify PCC or PM. At the same time, a few central themes of the respective notions, sometimes presented separately from one another or expressed differently by different authors, appeared in the material.…”

“…PCC purports to be nonreductionist in that it highlights care-oriented health care ethical ideals. It attempts to push away from a restricted biomedical model of patients and their needs [18,25,34], and focus on the complex person [23,26,34]. PM, on the other hand, stems from the biomedical framework and represents a more traditional efficiency-oriented health technology assessment ideal, where optimization of biological outcome parameters is the very purpose.…”

Evaluación e intervención de la sobrecarga del cuidador informal de adultos mayores dependientes: Revisión de artículos publicados entre 1997 – 2014

“…Dentro de las estrategias encontradas se sugiere la psicoeducación, programas de autoayuda, terapia cognitiva conductual como: técnicas de relajación y respiración, entrenamiento en habilidades sociales, entrenamiento en habilidades comunicativas asertivas, terapia de conducta, Mindfulness, resolución de problemas, estrategias de afrontamiento y autocontrol personal, modificaciones am-Evaluación e intervención de la sobrecarga del cuidador informal de adultos mayores dependientes:... pp 144-154 bientales, resiliencia, intervención grupal y socio-sanitaria, actividades sociales de ocio y experiencias de disfrute 9,16,38,[76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95] Tabla 7. Estudios incluidos en idiomas inglés y español, relacionados con el tema, intervenciones terapéuticas para la sobrecarga del cuidador…”