Improving the Care Partner Experience: An Occupational Therapy Intervention proposes a clinic or telehealth based occupational therapy (OT) treatment intervention to teach care partners how to maximize the occupational engagement of care recipients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and decrease caregiver burden. Caregiver burden contributes to care partner illness and care recipient institutionalization. The intervention consists of a protocol that is both client-centered and designed to foster self-efficacy of the care partner in providing care. A sense of self-efficacy will decrease caregiving burden and improve quality of life for both partners as described in the evidence supporting the project. The first chapter provides an overview of the intent and genesis of the intervention. It includes a description of the author’s work environment, the problem as it was identified and how the intervention fits within the OT practice framework. The next chapter explores factors contributing to the problem including the rural nature of New Hampshire, barriers to accessing adequate treatment and the theoretical basis grounded in Self-efficacy theory and the Model of Human Occupation. The second half of the chapter explores current best practice that exists in the literature. Several programs and interventions are identified and their efficacy is discussed. Based on the findings in chapter two, the intervention itself is outlined in chapter three, with examples of templates and a case scenario available in the appendices. The intervention, administered in the clinic or via telehealth, is based on the evidence of effective treatment in the home, translated into a clinic or telehealth based model. Administration of the program is fully described and reproducible from this document. Finally, a plan for program evaluation along with a budget and dissemination plan are included in the final chapter. The result is an evidenced based, client-centered occupational therapy treatment that can be administered in a consistent manner and contribute to lower caregiver burden and increased quality of life.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/30933 |
| Date | 06 July 2018 |
| Creators | Amero, Danielle |
| Contributors | Jacobs, Karen, Berger, Sue |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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