Alzheimer's Foundation of America Resources to Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia
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2022-12-15
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Nursing Department, The University of Tampa
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurocognitive degenerative disease with progressive deterioration of memory, orientation, cognitive thinking and
is the major leading cause of dementia. The deterioration may become disabling, requiring a caregiver around the clock. Most caregivers are
not trained or prepared for the care required. The purpose of this project was to recognize the caregiver’s lack of knowledge of AD and ADrelated
dementia (ADRD), provide resources to the caregiver to increase their knowledge, and provide AD/ADRD patient activities. The
planned method was to survey the AD/ADRD caregiver, provide education, and administer a post survey after several weeks. The survey
instrument consisted of questions of data collection to evaluate the information on an AD caregiver website. The original survey was used by
speech pathologists and published in 2018, survey was simplified for caregiver ease of reading. The survey consisted of closed ended survey
questions. A ten answer Likert scale was used to allow the researcher to gather detailed data and increase validity. The quantitative data was
analyzed using inferential statistics. This study evaluated the AD/ADRD caregivers knowledge base on AD following review of the content on
the Alzheimer’s Foundation of Americas’ web based Teal Room. The mean pre survey overall was significantly lower than the mean post
survey overall.
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Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Completed in course NUR 711.
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Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, Caregiver, Dementia, American Foundation of America