e-Learning Tools for Informal Caregivers of Patients with Dementia—A Review Study

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5584-8_8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5584-8_8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5584-8_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-981-15-5584-8_8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

e-Learning Tools for Informal Caregivers of Patients with Dementia—A Review Study

Original language description

Currently, due to the changing demographic trends, there is a growing number of older people suffering from aging diseases such as dementia. Dementia is a neurological disorder, which develops gradually, but progressively. Especially in the last stage of dementia, patients are fully dependent on caregiver’s help since they are not able to take care of themselves. The purpose of this article is to explore the use of e-learning as an informal caregiver’s tool for persons with dementia and discuss its benefits and limitations in order to improve the quality of life of caretakers of people with dementia. The methodology is based on a literature review of the research topic, i.e., the use of e-learning tools for informal caretakers of patients with dementia in the period of January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019. The findings show that the informal caregivers in all identified articles were satisfied with the e-learning platform, program, or the course whose content tried to help them acquire more information and knowledge about the disease, as well as educate them how to cope with the perceived distress and enhance empathy for their patients. One of the main limitations of this review is a lack of studies found on the research topic. However, this fact has been confirmed by other research studies, which reveal that technologies evaluated for informal caregivers are rare. Therefore, more research should be done in this area.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

ISBN

978-981-15-5583-1

ISSN

2190-3018

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

91-99

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Singapore

Event location

Split, Chorvatsko

Event date

Jun 17, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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