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Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia and the challenges for family carers: systematic review

Feast, A; Orrell, M; Charlesworth, G; Melunsky, N; Poland, F; Moniz-Cook, E; (2016) Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia and the challenges for family carers: systematic review. [Review]. British Journal of Psychiatry , 208 (5) pp. 429-434. 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.153684. Green open access

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Abstract

Background: Tailored psychosocial interventions can help families to manage behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD), but carer responses to their relative's behaviours contribute to the success of support programmes. / Aims: To understand why some family carers have difficulty in dealing with BPSD, in order to improve the quality of personalised care that is offered. / Method: A systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis was conducted of high-quality quantitative and qualitative studies between 1980 and 2012. / Results: We identified 25 high-quality studies and two main reasons for behaviours being reported as challenging by family carers: changes in communication and relationships, resulting in ‘feeling bereft’; and perceptions of transgressions against social norms associated with ‘misunderstandings about behaviour’ in the relative with dementia. The underlying belief that their relative had lost, or would inevitably lose, their identity to dementia was a fundamental reason why family carers experienced behaviour as challenging. / Conclusions: Family carers' perceptions of BPSD as challenging are associated with a sense of a declining relationship, transgressions against social norms and underlying beliefs that people with dementia inevitably lose their ‘personhood’. Interventions for the management of challenging behaviour in family settings should acknowledge unmet psychological need in family carers.

Type: Article
Title: Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia and the challenges for family carers: systematic review
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.153684
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.153684
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1454489
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