Aya Seike, Chieko Sumigaki, Akinori Takeda, Hidetoshi Endo, Takashi Sakurai, Kenji Toba. Developing an Inter-professional Program of Educational Support for Patients and their Family Members in the Early Stage of Dementia -An Investigation Based on the Learning Needs and Attitude Changes of Patients and their Family Members -, International Journal of Geriatric Gerontology, In Press, 2014.4
○Aim
The National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology has begun to provide educational support for family caregivers through interdisciplinary programs focusing on patients in the early stage of dementia. These interdisciplinary programs have established two domains for the purpose of “educational support”: cure domains (medical care, medication) and care domains (nursing care, welfare). In the present study, we examined the learning needs and post-learning attitude changes of patients and their families who participated in these programs in order to assess the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary program of educational support in each of these domains.
○目的
国立長寿医療研究センターでは、認知症確定診断直後（以下、初期と定義）の患者、家族を対象とした支援プログラムの提供を開始した。この支援は、キュア領域（医学・薬剤）、ケア領域（看護・福祉）で構成され、多職種恊働によるプログラム提供を「教育的支援」と定義した。本研究では、効果的な教育的支援プログラムの構成要素を探索するため、初期認知症患者や家族の学習ニーズと学習後の意識変容について検証した。