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Interventions For Family Caregivers Of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease In Community-Based Settings: Items For Consideration, Kathleen Buckwalter
Interventions For Family Caregivers Of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease In Community-Based Settings: Items For Consideration, Kathleen Buckwalter
Kathleen C. Buckwalter
No abstract provided.
Interventions For Family Caregivers Of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease In Community-Based Settings: Items For Consideration, Kathleen Buckwalter
Interventions For Family Caregivers Of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease In Community-Based Settings: Items For Consideration, Kathleen Buckwalter
Kathleen C. Buckwalter
No abstract provided.
Psychogeriatric Outreach To Rural Families: The Iowa And Virginia Models, I. L. Abraham, Kathleen C. Buckwalter, D. G. Snustad, D. E. Smullen, A. A. Thompson-Heisterman, J. B. Neese, Marianne Smith
Psychogeriatric Outreach To Rural Families: The Iowa And Virginia Models, I. L. Abraham, Kathleen C. Buckwalter, D. G. Snustad, D. E. Smullen, A. A. Thompson-Heisterman, J. B. Neese, Marianne Smith
Kathleen C. Buckwalter
Elderly residents of rural areas are at significant risk for mental health problems, yet have less access to mental health services. Thus, most mental health problems among rural elderly remain either undiagnosed or untreated. We describe two models of mental health outreach programs to rural elderly in Iowa and Virginia, serving demographically, culturally, and epidemiologically different populations in geographically and economically dissimilar regions. Programs are compared on the basis of initiation, community partnerships, target population, target region, clinical disciplines involved, coordinating discipline, referral sources, operational model, initial home assessment, care planning, sustainability, cost, patient demographics, and primary and secondary diagnosed. …