1. ADAPTING MINDFULNESS-BASED COUNSELING FOR THE TELEPHONE: A PILOT STUDY FOR CAREGIVERS AND VETERANS WITH DEMENTIA
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Teddy K Bishop, Kimberly Alexander, Michelle M. Hilgeman, P. Block, and A. Lynn Snow
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Stress management ,Health (social science) ,Mindfulness ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Psychological intervention ,medicine.disease ,Health Professions (miscellaneous) ,Distress ,Abstracts ,Quality of life (healthcare) ,medicine ,Dementia ,Grief ,Life-span and Life-course Studies ,business ,Session 2535 (Symposium) ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Optimizing Dementia Care in Veterans with Dementia is a randomized, controlled, pilot study examining outcomes for Veterans and their caregivers at 6- and 12-months for two telephone-based interventions: a) Benjamin Rose Institute’s (BRI) Care Consultation (CC), and b) CC + Counseling (CC+C). Counseling modules are integrated into the existing BRI CC framework using guided mindfulness-based skill-building exercises on various content domains (e.g., grief, identity, intimacy, stress management). Sixty-four caregivers and 47 Veterans (M = 74.3 years, MOCA Score M = 15.5) have been randomized in this ongoing pilot study. Caregivers are 91% female, 32% Black/African American, and 72% spouses. Preliminary implementation and 6-month outcome data is discussed (e.g., reaction to behavioral distress, mindfulness, depression, quality of life) using within-group paired samples t-tests for the 32 dyads randomized to CC+C. Lessons learned include strategies for adapting mindfulness-based approaches over the telephone to enhance access for Veterans and caregivers across geographic regions.
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- 2019