Table 3.
Adversity | Resources | Outcomes for individuals diagnosed | |
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PSN and DA Services Clarke et al. (27, 28) | Identified and address a wide range of needs. |
Individual - Provided resources relevant to strengths and desires of individuals. e.g., people wanted to keep well, wide range of services, and purposeful activities - Supported access to resources, through empowering participation, choice, independence, control. Community - Social contact with peers - Supported significant others. Societal Education for others in society and advocated on behalf of people with dementia. |
- Increase QoL, independence. - Achieved a “new normal” living with dementia. - Recommenced social life and purposeful activities. - Improved self-esteem, self-worth, improved self- identity, confidence to disclose dementia to others. |
Memory Maker and ESBCA Matcher et al. (31, 32) | Identified Stigma Reduced Social Isolation |
Individual - Access to information about successfully living with dementia Community - Opportunities to support and receive support from others - Social contact with peers. - Opportunities for social life and environment without stigma. |
- Improved independence, positivity,communication. - Adapted purposeful activities. - Empowered to seek further help through disclosure. - Reframed dementia normalizing existence. |
VAEA Newman et al. (29) | Variable cognitive and communication difficulties, Stigma Excessive Disability | Access to group and individual creative activities Access to context which supports personhood. Access to and use of interplay of individual and social resources. |
Did better than expected. Increased communication, self- esteem Improved relationships with others. |