UCLA-led research finds that a comprehensive dementia care program staffed by nurse practitioners working within a health system improves the mental and emotional health of patients and their caregivers.
While the program did not slow the progression of dementia, it did reduce patients’ behavioral problems and depression, and lower the distress of caregivers, the researchers found.
The paper is published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The findings, based on data from the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program,…
