Mind-body practices for people living with dementia and their family carers: a systematic review
Author:
van der Ploeg Eva S.1, Bitane Rutger M.1, Schoones Jan W.2, Achterberg Wilco P.13, Smaling Hanneke J.A.13ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Public Health and Primary Care , 4501 Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden , The Netherlands 2. Directorate of Research Policy , Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden , The Netherlands 3. University Network for the Care sector Zuid-Holland , Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden , The Netherlands
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction
People with dementia and their family carers may benefit from non-pharmacological interventions, including mind-body (MB-) practices, which can improve physical and mental health by inducing relaxation. This systematic review provides an overview of availability and effects of MB-practices.
Content
The authors performed a systematic search in PubMed, Embase, Emcare, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Academic Search Premier on February 1, 2024. Research papers on MB-practices for people with dementia and/or their family carers in English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Dutch were included if a full text was available. Selection of included articles, data extraction and methodological quality assessments were conducted by two researchers.
Summary
Of the 130 included studies, 100 (77 %) were of high quality. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and touch interventions for people with dementia, and meditations for family carers resulted in improvements in respectively cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms, and mental health. Lack of evidence for other MB-practices is related to small numbers of studies, fragmented use of outcome measures and mixed findings.
Outlook
MB-practices showed promising results. We recommend implementation and further research of TCM- and touch interventions for people with dementia as well as meditations for family carers. We suggest a cross-over of the promising results of one group to be studied in the other group.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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