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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7629049/) Music Therapy to Facilitate Relationship Completion at the End of Life: A Mixed-Methods Study
Apr 22nd 2024, 15:17

Abstract
The concept of relationship completion is embodied as the core belief for end-of-life care in Taiwan, known as the Four Expressions in Life. No studies have been published investigating and trying to understand how music therapy facilitates the Four Expressions in Life. This convergent mixed-methods study examined the effects of music therapy to facilitate relationship completion for patients at the end of life and their families in Taiwan, and explored their personal experiences in music therapy sessions. Thirty-four patients at end-of-life care and 36 of their family members participated in a single music therapy session with a one-group pretest-posttest design using standardized quality-of-life measures for patients at the end of life and families. A nested sample of 5 patients and 9 family members completed semi-structured interviews. Significant differences between the pre and post session scores were revealed for patients in the Life Completion subscale of the QUAL-E (p < .001), and the global QoL Indicator (p < .001), and for families in the Completion subscale of the QUAL-E (Fam) (p < .001), and the Overall Quality of Life (p < .001). Four themes around opportunities emerged from the interviews: the opportunity for exploration, for connection, for expression, and for healing. The integrated findings suggest that music therapy facilitated relationship completion and improved quality of life for both patients and their families. Furthermore, this study supports that the transformative level of music therapy practice within a single session for end-of-life care is attainable.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7615999/) Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies
Apr 22nd 2024, 15:16

Abstract
Existing literature on the politics of work–family reconciliation policies focuses primarily on women and their policy preferences as the main driver of recent policy expansions. But what do we know about male preferences? This article explores this question in an innovative way by integrating insights from economic and sociological studies of division of labor and bargaining within the household. It investigates the link between women’s relative resources within the household and their male partners’ preferences for different types of reconciliation policies. Drawing on regression analysis of nineteen OECD countries using the International Social Survey Program data (Family and Changing Gender Roles IV), we find that: (1) men in dual-earner households, men in college-educated educational homogamy, and men in educational hypogamy (the woman is better educated) are more likely to support reconciliation policies; and (2) women’s earnings and education have different effects on men’s preferences.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/a-common-pathway-in-the-brain-that-enables-addictive-drugs-to-hijack-natural-reward-processing/) A common pathway in the brain that enables addictive drugs to hijack natural reward processing
Apr 22nd 2024, 14:47

Mount Sinai researchers, in collaboration with scientists at The Rockefeller University, have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that allows cocaine and morphine to take over natural reward processing systems. 
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7613952/) Carta of Florence Against Ageism; No Place for Ageism in Health Care
Apr 22nd 2024, 14:11

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7631810/) Humanitarian hacking: Merging refugee aid and digital capitalism
Apr 22nd 2024, 13:17

Abstract
Hackathons have become popular for helping refugees, among NGOs, volunteers, and corporations but their material impact has been limited. This article explores two Techfugees hackathons in Copenhagen organized with support from Google. The article conceptualizes humanitarian hacking as a space where refugee aid meets digital capitalism by examining the practices of ‘hacking the refugee crisis’ within the analytical framework of critical refugee and humanitarian innovation literature. Rather than providing novel digital solutions, hackathons reproduce existing imaginaries that cast digital technologies as effective, quick-fix solutions; tech companies as innovation experts and humanitarian actors; and refugees as entrepreneurial subjects not in need of aid but of platforms and market opportunities. Thus, while humanitarian hacking has limited impact for the intended beneficiaries, it produces value for hackathon participants and the sponsor organizations. Crucially, humanitarian hacking places tech companies at the forefront of humanitarian aid for refugees and reaffirms humanitarian innovation policy narratives and Silicon Valley corporate humanitarianism.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/the-reach-of-school-meals-during-the-2022-2023-school-year-the-impact-of-the-end-of-pandemic-era-waivers/) The Reach of School Meals during the 2022-2023 School Year: The Impact of the End of Pandemic-Era Waivers
Apr 22nd 2024, 13:13

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/public-health-and-clinical-implications-of-dobbs-v-jackson-for-patients-and-healthcare-providers-a-scoping-review/) Public health and clinical implications of Dobbs v. Jackson for patients and healthcare providers: A scoping review
Apr 22nd 2024, 13:13

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7614569/) The Temporality of Intimate Partner Violence – How an Understanding of Time and Gendered Threats Can Foster Protection-Positive Outcomes
Apr 22nd 2024, 12:16

Abstract
This article brings together temporality and gender in the refugee process and examines how refugee determination bodies and courts have interpreted gendered threats, as a specific form of intimate partner violence. A case law review of jurisdictions (that include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK) is conducted, revealing a flawed temporal phenomenon where decision-makers have focused primarily on the exogenous aspect of threats, namely, whether there is a real chance of a threat being actuated in the future, and have largely failed to assess the endogenous, psychological dimension of the threat, that encompasses past, present, and future aspects of time. The practice of treating threats of violence as a potential future harm rather than an already occurring harm exhibits an obvious privileging of the future over the present that is not rooted in the empirical evidence on intimate partner violence. Further, the predominant focus by decision-makers on isolated future events as harm fails to accommodate the broad temporal dimensions of systemic intimate partner violence, best suited to a predicament-based model of being persecuted. This article explores the temporal shortcomings and gendered interpretations that underpin this erroneous practice in case law, finding that the temporal governance of refugee law is still largely shaped by the male gaze and conceptualisations of masculinity and femininity, which contributes to the limited recognition of threats as a form of harm in themselves.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/re-imagining-social-work-towards-creative-practice/) Re-imagining Social Work: Towards Creative Practice
Apr 22nd 2024, 12:12

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7617685/) Psychedelics in PERIL: The Commercial Determinants of Health, Financial Entanglements and Population Health Ethics
Apr 22nd 2024, 12:11

Abstract
The nascent for-profit psychedelic industry has begun to engage in corporate practices like funding scientific research and research programs. There is substantial evidence that such practices from other industries like tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals and food create conflicts of interest and can negatively influence population health. However, in a context of funding pressures, low publicly funded success rates and precarious academic labor, there is limited ethics guidance for researchers working at the intersection of clinical practice and population health as to how they should approach potential financial sponsorship from for-profit entities, such as the psychedelic industry. This article reports on a reflective exercise among a group of clinician scientists working in psychedelic science, where we applied Adams’ (2016) PERIL (Purpose, Extent, Relevant harm, Identifiers, Link) ethical decision-making framework to a fictionalized case of corporate psychedelic financial sponsorship. Our analysis suggests financial relationships with the corporate psychedelic sector may create varying degrees of risk to a research program’s purpose, autonomy and integrity. We argue that the commercial determinants of health provide a useful framework for understanding the ethics of industry-healthcare entanglements and can provide an important population health ethics lens to examine nascent industries such as psychedelics, and work toward potential solutions.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/can-biased-search-results-change-peoples-opinions-about-anything-at-all-a-close-replication-of-the-search-engine-manipulation-effect-seme/) Can biased search results change people’s opinions about anything at all? a close replication of the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME)
Apr 22nd 2024, 12:01

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/health-ministry-launches-platform-to-help-taiwans-social-workers-2/) Health Ministry Launches Platform To Help Taiwan’s Social Workers
Apr 22nd 2024, 11:23

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7624515/) Quality of life of caregivers at the end of their child’s pediatric cancer treatment: cancer-specific worry and material hardship
Apr 22nd 2024, 11:17

Abstract
Objective
Emerging research suggests that completion of pediatric cancer treatment can be challenging for caregivers given shifting roles and responsibilities. Lower caregiver quality of life (QOL) has been associated with cancer-related variables, higher cancer caregiving strain, and more household material hardship during pediatric cancer treatment. Caregiver QOL at the end of treatment has not been fully investigated but has implications for child and family well-being. Using a psycho-oncology framework, this study aimed to understand the cumulative burden of household material hardship and cancer-related factors on caregiver QOL at the end of treatment.
Methods
Caregivers (N = 143) of children (Mage=10.51 years) within 1 year of ending active cancer treatment completed self-report questionnaires assessing their QOL, cancer-specific worry, and material hardship (e.g., housing, insurance). Total months of active cancer treatment were extracted from the medical record. Hierarchical linear regression was used to test the relative effects of length of treatment, material hardship, and cancer-specific worry on caregiver QOL.
Results
Cancer-specific worry was significantly associated with and accounted for significant variance in caregiver QOL, above and beyond the length of treatment and material hardship. Caregivers who endorsed more cancer-specific worry had poorer QOL. Material hardship was also significantly associated with caregivers’ QOL, but length of treatment was not.
Conclusions
Caregivers with sufficient resources and less worry about cancer have higher QOL. Findings highlight the importance of end-of-treatment screening of caregivers’ subjective cancer-specific worry in addition to material hardship, irrespective of their cancer-related stressors, for ongoing psychosocial support.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/the-environment-and-child-well-being-the-state-of-children-in-the-european-union-2024/) The environment and child well-being: The State of Children in the European Union 2024
Apr 22nd 2024, 11:16

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/addressing-mental-health-disability-in-unsheltered-homelessness-outpatient-conservatorship/) Addressing Mental Health Disability in Unsheltered Homelessness: Outpatient Conservatorship
Apr 22nd 2024, 10:17

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7342399/) Internet-Based Conversational Engagement Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial (I-CONECT) Among Socially Isolated Adults 75+ Years Old With Normal Cognition or Mild Cognitive Impairment: Topline Results
Apr 22nd 2024, 10:11

Abstract
Background and Objectives
Social isolation is a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia. We conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) of enhanced social interactions, hypothesizing that conversational interactions can stimulate brain functions among socially isolated older adults without dementia. We report topline results of this multisite RCT (Internet-based conversational engagement clinical trial [I-CONECT]; NCT02871921).
Research Design and Methods
The experimental group received cognitively stimulating semistructured conversations with trained interviewers via internet/webcam 4 times per week for 6 months (induction) and twice per week for an additional 6 months (maintenance). The experimental and control groups both received weekly 10 minutes telephone check-ins. Protocol modifications were required due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Results
A total of 186 participants were randomized. After the induction period, the experimental group had higher global cognitive test scores (Montreal Cognitive Assessment [primary outcome]; 1.75 points [p = .03]) compared with the control group. After induction, experimental group participants with normal cognition had higher language-based executive function (semantic fluency test [secondary outcome]; 2.56 points [p = .03]). At the end of the maintenance period, the experimental group of mild cognitive impairment subjects had higher encoding function (Craft Story immediate recall test [secondary outcome]; 2.19 points [p = .04]). Measure of emotional well-being improved in both control and experimental groups. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that the experimental group had increased connectivity within the dorsal attention network relative to the control group (p = .02), but the sample size was limited.
Discussion and Implications
Providing frequent stimulating conversational interactions via the internet could be an effective home-based dementia risk-reduction strategy against social isolation and cognitive decline.
Clinical Trials Registration Number
NCT02871921
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/s12954-023-00904-9/) Bystander preference for naloxone products: a field experiment
Apr 22nd 2024, 10:04

Bystander administration of naloxone is a critical strategy to mitigate opioid overdose mortality. To ensure bystanders’ willingness to carry and administer naloxone in response to a suspected overdose, it is …
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/family-ties-analysis-from-a-state-by-state-survey-of-kinship-care-policies/) Family Ties: Analysis from a state-by-state survey of kinship care policies
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:59

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/inequality-should-not-be-the-only-rallying-cry-for-the-left/) Inequality Should Not Be the Only Rallying Cry for the Left
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:51

All of this makes the case that inequality is indeed “the great moral issue of our time,” and so, naturally, the preoccupation of the Left. But there’s more. Movements for racial and gender justice and equality have made it clear that formal equality — that is, equality before the law, the equality of rights that is supposed to attach to every individual — remains, as it always has in American history, unfinished business, notwithstanding constitutional amendments, various legislative acts, and court decisions.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/billionaires-are-pillaging-america-how-do-we-fight-back-the-chris-hedges-report-2/) Billionaires are pillaging America. How do we fight back? | The Chris Hedges Report
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:48

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/guidelines-plus/psychological-and-physical-approaches-for-sleep-disorders/) Psychological and Physical Approaches for Sleep Disorders
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:44

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/progress-towards-universal-health-coverage-and-inequalities-in-infant-mortality-an-analysis-of-4%C2%B71-million-births-from-60-low-income-and-middle-income-countries-between-2000-and-2019/) Progress towards universal health coverage and inequalities in infant mortality: an analysis of 4·1 million births from 60 low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2019
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:26

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7630953/) The process of ratifying the Treaty to establish the African Medicines Agency: perspectives of National Regulatory Agencies
Apr 22nd 2024, 09:17

Abstract
The vision of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is to ensure that all Africans have access to affordable medical products that meet internationally recognised standards of quality, safety and efficacy for priority diseases/conditions. The AMA is being established by a treaty which had to be ratified by a minimum of 15 African countries. Although there was no deadline, the ratification process has been slower than expected. This study therefore analysed the rationale, perceived benefits, enabling factors and challenges of the AMA’s establishment. This study was a qualitative, cross-sectional, census survey of the national medicines regulatory authorities (NRAs) of 45 African countries. The heads of NRAs and a senior NRA staff member were contacted to complete self-administered questionnaires. The existence of mature NRAs, the desire to have harmonised regulatory systems, the presence of strong political will and appropriate advocacy to expedite treaty signing are all enabling factors for AMA treaty signing. The challenges reported include the fact that the process is slow and there is limited understanding of the process. Competing national priorities, changes in office bearers in the public system and stagnation of the process at the ministerial level were also challenges reported. This study has improved the understanding of the treaty signing and ratification process, and the perceived benefits and enabling factors of signing and ratification from African NRAs’ perspective. NRAs also highlighted challenges encountered in the process. Addressing these challenges will result in effective medicines regulation by galvanising technical support, regulatory expertise and resources at a continental level.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/14550725241235029/) Caring for elderly substance users: Challenges, dilemmas and recommendations
Apr 22nd 2024, 08:56

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Ahead of Print. Aim: To investigate the challenges and barriers in Danish care professionals’ work in relation to elderly citizens who use substances. Method: The study draws on data from a “going along” study of care professionals’ encounters with citizens as well as interviews with professionals. This was conducted in two smaller, rural municipalities in Denmark. Findings: Providing adequate care for elderly citizens who use substances can be highly challenging. This is due to a multitude of factors, especially (1) the complexity of their health conditions, (2) contradictory logics of care (autonomy vs. healthy living), (3) citizens often unpredictable behaviours, (4) lack of cooperation between welfare systems and, not least, (5) lack of knowledge and education among healthcare professionals. Conclusions: There is a need for more specialised procedures locally, the appointment of local “experts”, better cooperation between sectors and easier accessible training and information on the group on a national level.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7631803/) Clown-based Social Work as Dissent in Child Protection Practice
Apr 22nd 2024, 08:43

Abstract
This article presents Clown-Based Social Work (Steggall, 2023) as a form of dissent consistent with Paul Michael Garrett’s (2021a) conceptualisation of Dissenting Social Work. It contributes to the debate sparked by Chris Maylea (2020) and continued by Paul Michael Garrett (2021b) and Joe Whelan (2022). Clown-Based Social Work is an outcome of Steggall’s, doctoral research findings. Clown theory is a relational practice that offers an alternative way of being with people in an impossible situation. Correlations between Clown Theory and Social Work Theory were observed and explored. These correlations were conceptualised into Clown-Based Social Work as a new approach to child protection practice. Three key concepts of Clown-Based Social Work are discussed as forms of dissent from established ways of knowing and normative familial ideals in child protection work: Failure, Stupidity and Play. These three concepts are explored as relational practices that can enact dialogue between service users and social workers. This discussion is both a response to what Maylea (2020) has called the contemporary failures of social work and to Garrett’s (2021a, p. 226) call for dissenting imbued perspectives in social work practice.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/pha0000669/) Support for incentive-sensitization theory in adolescent ad libitum smokers using ecological momentary assessment.
Apr 22nd 2024, 08:01

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Vol 32(1), Feb 2024, 27-34; doi:10.1037/pha0000669
The incentive-sensitization theory (IST) has emerged as a potentially useful theory in explaining substance addiction. IST postulates that the prolonged use of a substance can alter neural systems that are often involved in incentive motivation and reward processes, leading to an increased “sensitization” to the substance and associated stimuli. However, this increased sensitization is thought to mediate only the individual’s craving of the substance (e.g., their “wanting”), not their enjoyment of the substance (e.g., their “liking”), a process that may involve unconscious implicit changes in cognitive networks linked to specific substances. Consequently, IST may better explain the real-world dissonance reported for individuals who want to accomplish long-term substance cessation but fail to do so, a phenomenon that is common in adolescent smokers. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the principles of IST in a sample of 154 adolescent ad libitum smokers (Mage = 16.57, SDage = 1.12, 61.14% male) utilizing ecological momentary assessment. Data were analyzed utilizing a multilevel structural equation model examining changes in positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), and stress from Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2) as a function of smoking and tested the influence of implicit cognition (specifically, implicit attitudes about smoking [Implicit Association Test (IAT)]) on these associations. Consistent with the principles of IST, results found a modest significant negative association between smoking status at T1 and PA at T2 (B = −0.11, p = .047). This association was further moderated by IAT (B = −0.19, p = .029) and was particularly potentiated at high levels of IAT (B = −0.44, p B = −0.05, p = .663) or mean levels of IAT (B = −0.25, p = .004). Findings from this study provide additional support to the principles underlying IST and indicate that, in adolescents, smoking may result in thwarted PA indicative of a transition from “liking” toward “wanting,” and this is especially pronounced among those with stronger implicit smoking cognitions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/ucci-celebrates-successful-inaugural-social-work-symposium/) UCCI Celebrates Successful Inaugural Social Work Symposium
Apr 22nd 2024, 07:33

UCCI is committed to nurturing the next generation of social work professionals through its comprehensive social work programme. The bespoke programme at UCCI is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and ethical grounding required to make a significant difference in the lives of individuals and communities within the Cayman Islands.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7632835/) Truth Commissions and the Prevention of Targeted Mass Killings
Apr 22nd 2024, 07:19

ABSTRACT
While transitional justice endeavors aim to help countries come to terms with violent pasts, policymakers and practitioners often claim that transitional justice mechanisms help prevent future violence as well. No cross-national research has tested this claim, however. This article begins to fill this gap by examining whether one of the most frequently used mechanisms of transitional justice, the truth commission, is associated with the onset of targeted mass killings (TMKs) in 27 countries between 1972 and 2018. Our differences-in-differences estimation approach finds that countries that have implemented truth commissions see a significant reduction in the recurrence of TMKs compared to those countries that did not implement a truth commission. Additional analyses reveal that while issuance of a final report and recommendations for reforms are not associated with the onset of TMKs, truth commissions that do not recommend the punishment of perpetrators are more likely to reduce TMKs in the years following the truth commission. The article ends by discussing the functions of truth commissions and proposing how their preventive capacity may be strengthened further through the application of an atrocity prevention lens.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/prevalence-of-physical-violence-against-people-in-insecure-migration-status-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis/) Prevalence of physical violence against people in insecure migration status: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Apr 22nd 2024, 07:13

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7626708/) “Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing”: Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Adaptation to Changing Social Lives Among Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners
Apr 22nd 2024, 06:16

Abstract
Background and Objectives
Persons with dementia and their care partners have known risks for loneliness and social isolation throughout the disease trajectory, yet little is described about social lives in a population heterogeneous for disease stage, syndrome type, and setting.
Research Design and Methods
We conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative interviews from multiple studies to triangulate responses from a cohort of persons with dementia (n = 24), and active (n = 33) or bereaved (n = 15) care partners diverse in setting, dementia type and stage, and life experience. Interviews explored challenges related to social lives and were analyzed thematically.
Results
Persons with dementia were on average 80 years old (range: 67–94), 38% female, and 78% diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia; care partners were on average 67 years old (range: 40–87) and 69% female. We identified 3 primary themes. First, dyads lost external social networks due to complex factors, including discomfort of surrounding social networks, caregiving responsibilities, and progressive cognitive deficits. Second, care partners described disruptions of meaningful dyadic relationships due to progressive cognitive and functional deficits, leading to loneliness and anticipatory grief. Third, adaptive strategies centered on care partners facilitating shared social activities and programs addressing caregiver burden. An overarching theme of disease–course accumulation of barriers to social interactions and constant adaptations was present in all themes.
Discussion and Implications
Isolation and loneliness are a shared experience and source of distress for persons with dementia and care partners. Results can inform interventions tailored to individual needs and disease stages of dyads that enhance social connectedness.
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