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@ARTICLE{Rodriguez:281863,
      author       = {Rodriguez, Francisca S and Ziegert, Nadja and Ross, Sabrina
                      D},
      title        = {{N}on-{M}edical {A}ctivities in {D}ementia {C}are in
                      {G}ermany: {U}se and {E}xperienced {E}ffects.},
      journal      = {Journal of primary care $\&$ community health},
      volume       = {16},
      issn         = {2150-1319},
      address      = {London},
      publisher    = {Sage},
      reportid     = {DZNE-2025-01236},
      pages        = {21501319251390081},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {Previous studies have shown benefits through
                      non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia.
                      Non-medical activities (i.e., activities outside the medical
                      sector) may have similar effect. As little is known about
                      the use and perceived effects of non-medical activities in
                      dementia care, this study's aim was to obtain
                      population-based descriptive information. A survey in the
                      form of structured interviews was conducted with n = 134
                      stakeholders. Participants used on average 17.7 non-medical
                      activities (i.e., social, leisure, and household
                      activities). They reported perceiving effects for, on
                      average, $85.1\%$ of the activities, which were mostly
                      effects on improvements in wellbeing, activation, and social
                      health. Overall, a higher use of non-medical activities was
                      significantly associated with perceiving more effects,
                      especially on cognition and preserving abilities, and
                      perceiving not knowing an activity as a barrier. However,
                      this differed by stakeholder group: Perceiving effects on
                      cognition was only significant for caregiving professionals.
                      Further, for this group, feeling sufficiently trained for
                      dealing with dementia and self-organizing/ self-financing
                      activities was associated with a higher use. Overall, the
                      results indicate that non-medical activities are an
                      important component of dementia care that seem to come with
                      important benefits.},
      keywords     = {Humans / Dementia: therapy / Germany / Male / Female /
                      Middle Aged / Aged / Caregivers: psychology / Leisure
                      Activities / Interviews as Topic / Surveys and
                      Questionnaires / Alzheimer’s (Other) / dementia (Other) /
                      dementia care (Other) / health service utilization (Other) /
                      intervention (Other) / non-pharmacological (Other) /
                      psychosocial (Other)},
      cin          = {AG Rodriguez},
      ddc          = {610},
      cid          = {I:(DE-2719)1510900},
      pnm          = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {pmid:41185915},
      doi          = {10.1177/21501319251390081},
      url          = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/281863},
}