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Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study

The goal of the present study was to examine how canine assistance may support family caregivers and persons with dementia and to document and compare two modalities of home care support. An exploratory comparative case study research design was conducted. Three cases correspond of dyads of a caregi...

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Autores principales: Vincent, Claude, Dumont, Frédéric S, Rivard, Annette, Rogers, Manon, Brémault-Phillips, Suzette, Brown, Cary, Achou, Bertrand
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37816224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012231204646
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author Vincent, Claude
Dumont, Frédéric S
Rivard, Annette
Rogers, Manon
Brémault-Phillips, Suzette
Brown, Cary
Achou, Bertrand
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description The goal of the present study was to examine how canine assistance may support family caregivers and persons with dementia and to document and compare two modalities of home care support. An exploratory comparative case study research design was conducted. Three cases correspond of dyads of a caregiver, a person with mild to moderate dementia, and either a neuro service dog (NSD), a companion dog or no dog. Hypotheses are formulated to capture differences between cases. Recruitment was done in a service dog organisation, through Canadian Alzheimer associations and in records of a hospital. Data were collected through 45–60 minutes telephone interviews that included completion of the Caregiver’s Burden Scale and sociodemographic questions. We used an inductive approach with qualitative data. There were five caregivers (mean age 54.8 years) who had an NSD, 28 caregivers (63.6 years) who had a companion dog, and 23 caregivers (63.8 years) without dog. In the category of roles and usages of the dog, ‘Socialisation’ and ‘Help with a sense of direction’ were the most addressed roles for dyads with the NSD. For dyads with companion dog and without dog, ‘Engagement-and-meaning of life’ as well as ‘Physical activity with the dog’ were the most discussed roles. The ‘Sleep or wake up’ role was the least discussed role across three cases. In the other categories, they were seven advantages and 10 inconvenients that were mentioned for canine assistance. For home care support, the presence of NSD has more positive impacts on both the person with dementia and their caregiver compared to the presence of a companion dog; the presence of a NSD results in the person with dementia accessing more indoor and outdoor public sites than with a companion dog; and dyads with a dog are informally socially engaged more frequently than those with no dog.
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spelling pubmed-106446922023-11-14 Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study Vincent, Claude Dumont, Frédéric S Rivard, Annette Rogers, Manon Brémault-Phillips, Suzette Brown, Cary Achou, Bertrand Dementia (London) Article The goal of the present study was to examine how canine assistance may support family caregivers and persons with dementia and to document and compare two modalities of home care support. An exploratory comparative case study research design was conducted. Three cases correspond of dyads of a caregiver, a person with mild to moderate dementia, and either a neuro service dog (NSD), a companion dog or no dog. Hypotheses are formulated to capture differences between cases. Recruitment was done in a service dog organisation, through Canadian Alzheimer associations and in records of a hospital. Data were collected through 45–60 minutes telephone interviews that included completion of the Caregiver’s Burden Scale and sociodemographic questions. We used an inductive approach with qualitative data. There were five caregivers (mean age 54.8 years) who had an NSD, 28 caregivers (63.6 years) who had a companion dog, and 23 caregivers (63.8 years) without dog. In the category of roles and usages of the dog, ‘Socialisation’ and ‘Help with a sense of direction’ were the most addressed roles for dyads with the NSD. For dyads with companion dog and without dog, ‘Engagement-and-meaning of life’ as well as ‘Physical activity with the dog’ were the most discussed roles. The ‘Sleep or wake up’ role was the least discussed role across three cases. In the other categories, they were seven advantages and 10 inconvenients that were mentioned for canine assistance. For home care support, the presence of NSD has more positive impacts on both the person with dementia and their caregiver compared to the presence of a companion dog; the presence of a NSD results in the person with dementia accessing more indoor and outdoor public sites than with a companion dog; and dyads with a dog are informally socially engaged more frequently than those with no dog. SAGE Publications 2023-10-10 2023-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10644692/ /pubmed/37816224 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012231204646 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the Sage and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Dumont, Frédéric S
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Brémault-Phillips, Suzette
Brown, Cary
Achou, Bertrand
Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title_full Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title_fullStr Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title_full_unstemmed Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title_short Roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: An exploratory comparative case study
title_sort roles and usages of neuro service dogs for caregivers living at home with persons with dementia: an exploratory comparative case study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37816224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14713012231204646
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