Improving community service uptake and wellbeing for people with dementia and their carers during the early stages of the condition, is the focus of a new Griffith study.
This will be just one of the subjects discussed this September at the university during Dementia Awareness Month 2017, the theme of which is “You are not alone”.
“Awareness of community services and levels of uptake are generally low in older people and lowest amongst care recipients and carers living with dementia,” says Dr Gillian Stockwell-Smith from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland.
People struggling to cope with dementia
“These are often people that are really struggling to cope with their dementia and are reluctant to access any form of support until the later stages of the condition.”
Dr Stockwell-Smith’s research team evaluated the effect of a targeted psychosocial program offered to 45 people in their own homes which has aimed to get a better understanding of these
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