Developing a database to support professional caregivers who take care of early onset dementia patients in community setting

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23792705
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: YAMAKAWA Miyae 大阪大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (80403012)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 若年性認知症 / ケアサポート / データベース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop a database to support care providers for early onset dementia on the web basis on ways of caring by family caregivers,and to consider the database through focus group interviews for care professionals. In results of the group interviews, this database was “helpful to support family caregivers and understand dementia patients”, “included valid items”, “should separate into dementia type and severity” and “ needed to introduce more care report.” Additionally, this problem-solving database was “easy-to-use”, “helpful to organize what to know”, “to lose what to search” and “should be visualize”.

Free Research Field

認知症ケア