Treatment outcomes

The article offers information related to informal caregivers who provide unpaid, informal care for family members or friends with temporary or permanent conditions. It mentions increasingly, massage-related research examining massage benefits for admitted patients or patient populations and also mentions the results of standardized assessment scales that used to collect data for analysis research.

Objective: To review non-drug treatments for dementia; to provide a source of evidence for informal carers who want ideas about non-drug approaches for dementia, that they might try or that they could try to access. The systematic review addresses: what non-drug treatments work and what do they work for? What non-drug treatments might work and what for? What non-drug treatments do not work?