An exploration of the UK unpaid carer's world

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What are the strengths and limitations?

Strengths

• Integration of care for the demented person and the informal carer, fitting their individual needs.
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• The clients visiting Meeting Centres show less depressive symptoms.
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• Caregivers visiting Meeting Centres experience more support and feel less burdened.
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• Admissions to nursing homes are postponed. 

Weaknesses

• Not every Meeting Centre receives structural funding. 
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• Dementia clients and their informal caregivers can only visit Meeting Centres when health insurance approval is present.  Note 1

Opportunities

• Young people with Alzheimer’s disease generally do not visit day-care because of the high average age. These people do tend to visit Meeting Centres in community centres that are visited by people of all ages. 

Threats

• Meeting Centres require cooperation from organisations and sectors that have possibly not yet worked together.
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• The surplus value of the Meeting Centres is not yet clear to everyone.  Note 2

Evaluation study due to be completed in Feb 2017.  

To add appropriate text meanwhile.

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