Enhancing Dementia Care: A Digitally Supported Care Management Program for Informal Caregivers ‐ A Cluster‐Randomized Controlled Trial
Melanie Boekholt, Olga A Klein, Iris Blotenberg, Stefan Teipel, Bernhard Michalowsky, Ingo Kilimann, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian · 2025
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Family members give most of the care for people who live with dementia, and the load can harm their own health. Melanie Boekholt and co-authors tested a care program for such caregivers in a 2025 trial in one German state. Trained care managers used digital tools to learn each family's unmet needs and line up help.
The trial split 192 caregivers into two groups by chance, with half in the program and half in usual care. After six months, the program had not cut unmet needs for the group as a whole. It did help younger family caregivers, the team found. The results argue for help shaped to each family's age and needs, not a single fixed plan.
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| CREATOR | Melanie Boekholt, Olga A Klein, Iris Blotenberg, Stefan Teipel, Bernhard Michalowsky, Ingo Kilimann, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |