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Managing Your Own Wellness: a Pilot Intervention to Improve Dementia Care Partner Self-care

Year: 2022

Type: conference-abstract

Abstract: Engagement in regular self-care activities could mitigate and reduce the risk of negative health outcomes in dementia care partners (CP), yet many report that they do not prioritize wellness-related activities for themselves. We conducted a pilot of a virtual technology-supported intervention with 19 dementia CP to evaluate usability, feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of cultivating daily self-care habits and creating a wellness routine based on personalized self-care goals. Case studies and inductive thematic analyses suggested that the intervention could help CP meet their self-care activity goals, improve their sense of well-being and capacity to provide care. After establishing the initial feasibility and usability of the intervention and the online goal-setting and tracking platform, we collaborated with scientists specializing in Human-Centered Design and Engineering to develop a prototype of a mobile application that will optimize portability, utility, and support testing of this intervention.

Source: Innovation in Aging

DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igac059.079

Authors: Emily Ishado, Sarah McKiddy, Soo Borson, Tatiana Sadak

Institutions: University of Washington, University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,615