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Inclusion and exclusion criteria |
| Inclusion criteria |
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| ▪ Family caregiver: |
| - takes primary responsibility for the family care of a community dwelling patient with a clinical diagnosis of dementia |
| - is spouse, child (-in-law) or brother or sisters of the patient. |
| - lives together with the patient |
| ▪ In each family, at least one other family member or close friend lives in the same region of the patient and caregiver. |
| ▪ Both caregiver and patient have sufficient language proficiency in Dutch for adequate participation in meetings, interviews and tests. |
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| Exclusion criteria |
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| ▪ Severe somatic or psychiatric co-morbidity of either caregiver or patient, which will significantly impair cooperation to the program. |
| ▪ Caregiver has a depression or anxiety disorder at baseline |
| ▪ Either caregiver or patient participates in other intervention studies at inclusion or during the study which may interfere substantially with the study outcomes. |
| ▪ The patient is scheduled to move a nursing home in short notice. |
Joling et al. BMC Geriatrics 2008 8:2 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-8-2 |