Promoting Independence Through quality dementia Care at Home (PITCH)

This
study aims to understand the experiences of people living with dementia,
their family carers, and care workers regarding home care provided through
the Australian government's Home Care Packages Program or Commonwealth Home
Support Programme. This project investigates whether upskilling home care
workers by a training program improves the experiences of people with
dementia living at home, family carers and home care workers. Outcome
measures for home care workers, family members, and people living with
dementia include quality of life, carer burden, and clinical measures,
dementia knowledge and attitudes and competence in care measures, and health
economics measures.

本研究旨在探讨与痴呆症患者共同生活的人们、其家庭护理者和护理工作者，通过澳大利亚政府家庭护理包计划或联邦家庭支持计划所提供的家庭护理服务之体验。该项目旨在探究通过培训计划提升家庭护理工作者技能是否能够改善在家生活的痴呆症患者、家庭护理者和护理工作者的体验。家庭护理工作者、家庭成员及痴呆症患者的结果衡量指标包括生活质量、护理负担、临床指标、痴呆症知识与态度以及护理技能的胜任力，以及健康经济学指标。