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ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Developing more flexible approaches to respite for people living with dementia and their carers.

Chris Shanley

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Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. In-home respite care in dementia: An evolutionary concept analysis.International journal of nursing sciences · 2025
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  7. 'Health psychology open · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Chris ShanleyFaculty of Health Sciences and Centre for Education and Research on Aging, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. cshanley@med.usyd.edu.au

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A vital aspect of the care of people living with dementia is the provision of respite services, which allow family caregivers a break from the caring role. The flexibility of such services has consistently been identified as a major factor in whether families make use of them. This study of dementia respite services explores the notion of flexibility and then presents a comprehensive checklist that respite service providers can use to assess the flexibility of their service. It then provides brief descriptions of a number of creative respite programs that are examples of flexible service provision.

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CaregiversDay Care, MedicalDementiaEmergenciesHealth EducationHumansRespite CareSocial EnvironmentSocial Support

Identifiers

PMID16948287
PMCPMC10833262

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