People with dementia sometimes do not cooperate with care. They may refuse to bathe, change clothes, or refuse to take medications. The purpose of this study is to test if a caregiver coaching program ...

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The memorable line from the 1969 movie, Cool Hand Luke, could be used to describe the situation in many families and organizations of all kinds, ...

A total of 130 pairs of dementia patients and their caregivers—106 from family settings and 24 from residential care settings—participated in the study. Patients who experienced more independence, as ...

Within the context of the USHER trial, 29% of the 1,959 patients who were offered a rapid HIV test in the emergency department by an HIV counselor refused the test. This rate of refusal is comparable ...