Theme | Objective | Content |
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1. Caregiver Burden | Provide knowledge about the negative influence of stress. Strengthen family caregivers’ skills in managing the care burden. | • Provide education on caregiving, stress, and safety. • Teach stress management strategies: for example, stretching exercises, breathing exercise. |
2. Difficult behaviours | Enhance family caregivers’ ability to manage difficult behaviours. | • Provide knowledge about dementia symptoms. • Provide step-by-step strategies to manage specific difficult behaviours. • Conduct brainstorming of difficult behaviours management strategies. |
3. Depression | Provide skills in mood management. Enhance family caregivers’ psychological well-being. | • Provide knowledge about the importance of psychological well-being. • Teach family caregiver how to engage in pleasant events. • Teach family caregiver how to manage mood. • Establish a schedule of pleasant events. |
4. Self-care and healthy behaviours | Enhance family caregiver’s physical well-being and teach self-care behaviours | • Provide knowledge about preventive health practices and self-care. • Teach healthy behaviours (e.g., physical exercise, sleep, nutrition, adherence to prescribed medication) |
5. Social support | Enhance family caregiver’s social support, and care support | • Provide knowledge about the importance of social support. • Teach family caregiver to access community resources and refer to resource guide. • Teach communication skills with health professionals and other family caregivers • Strengthen participation of telephone-based support sessions. |