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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Effect of a Tele-Health Intervention Program on Home-Dwelling Persons with Dementia or MCI and on Their Primary Caregivers during the Stay-at-Home-Order Period in the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Evidence from Taiwan.

Yi-Ling Lai, Wen-Yi Chen, Lin-Ying Hsu, Chin-Hua Fu

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yi-Ling LaiCommunity Health Center, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung 427213, Taiwan.
Wen-Yi ChenDepartment of Senior Citizen Service Management, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung 403301, Taiwan.
Lin-Ying HsuCommunity Health Center, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung 427213, Taiwan.
Chin-Hua FuCommunity Health Center, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung 427213, Taiwan.
Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital · TWNational Taichung University of Science and Technology · TW

Funding

Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital in Taiwan REC109-22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Taiwanese government implemented a stay-at-home order that restricted all community-based health promotion activities for the elderly by shutting down all community care centers from May 2021 to August 2021 to control the spread of COVID-19. Community-based dementia care centers were barely able to provide dementia care services during that period.

methodsThe data used in this study were collected from a community-based dementia care center that was able to continue their dementia care services through a Tele-Health intervention program. The difference-in-differences methodology was applied to evaluate the effects of the Tele-Health intervention program on home-dwelling persons with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and on their primary caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

resultsThe Tele-Health intervention program significantly increased the well-being of the participants and their primary caregivers, but the negative correlations between the Tele-Health intervention program and family functioning were also found to be significant.

conclusionsThe significant substitution (negative) effects between the Tele-Health intervention program and family functioning raises the concern that promotion of the Tele-Health intervention program comes at the potential cost of a loss of family functioning. Policymakers should be cautious when considering the Tele-Health intervention program in response to pandemics and demographic transitions.

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COVID-19dementialockdownmild cognitive impairmentSARS-CoV-2stay-at-home-order policyTele-Health

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PMID35742021
PMCPMC9222236
OpenAlexW4281489692

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