Dementelcoach: effect of telephone coaching on caregives of community dwelling people with dementia.

The Dementelcoach project provides telephone coaching to caregivers of community dwelling people with dementia. The support is a total of 10 times. One time every two weeks with a total of 20 weeks. Caregivers answer questionaries before they start receiving their telephone coaching. After 20 weeks they answer the questionaries again to see if there is an effect in quality of life, caregiverburden (stress) and health.

With taking care of community dwelling people with dementia the responsibility ends up mostly with one primary caregiver. The caregiving is a heavy burden and results in stress. Caregivers have a life expectancy of 6 to 7 years les than people who are not caregivers. The aim of this project is giving support to the caregivers of dwelling people with dementia to lesson the caregiver burden and by that increase time that a person with dementia can live at home.

1. T=0:

Group 1,2,3: AGV 28, NPI, Vragenlijst Gevoel van competentie (Short sense of competence), Rand-36.


2. T=1 after 20 weeks:

Group 1,2,3: AGV 28, NPI, Vragenlijst Gevoel van competentie (Short sense of competence), Rand-36.

Group 1: Caregiver and person with dementia don't receive respite care. The caregiver receives telephone support from the Dementelcoach project.



Group 2: Person with dementia receives respite care in form of day care. The Caregver receives telephone support from the Dementelcoach project.



Group 3: Person with dementia receives respite care in the form of day care. The caregiver doesn't receive telephone support (until after the experiment)



The telephone support intervention exists of a 10 times telephone support, one each two weeks.