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Volume 7, Issue 4(Suppl) J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism, an open access journal
ISSN: 2161-0460 Euro Dementia Care 2017
September 18-19, 2017
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Dementia and Dementia Care
September 18-19, 2017 Dublin, Ireland
8th International Conference on
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Celeste A de Jager, J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2017, 7:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460-C1-027
Remote assessment of caregiver preparedness, needs and feedback
S tuward provides personalized education and advice, based on individual caregiver assessment profiles. This method
empowers carers to provide optimal care to their family members living with dementia. Details of assessment tools to
monitor carer burden, dementia knowledge and caree activities of daily living will be presented. Decision trees used to provide
education, advice and feedback will be discussed.
Biography
Celeste A de Jager, University of Cape Town (UCT) worked in the fields of neuropsychology and dementia research for 14 years at the University of Oxford, UK. She was
the Principal Investigator in studies with Merck, plc to identify sensitive neuropsychological tests as outcomes for AD treatment trials; and for the CognitiveArchaeology col-
laborative study with Dr Peter Garrard from St George’s University, London, on linguistic markers to predict dementia. She designed the cognitive and clinical assessment
aspects of the VITACOG trial of B vitamins and omega-3 for those with MCI. Latter work involved novel brain imaging studies for predictive markers of Alzheimers disease.
She obtained a British Academy award for community screening for cognitive impairment in India. She returned to UCT in South Africa in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer in
Clinical Epidemiology and obtained a WUN award to examine nutrition and cognition in collaboration with Dementia SA, and researchers from Leeds and Sheffield Uni-
versity. She held the interim South African Research Chairs Initiative in Clinical Neurosciences from 2013-2014 and piloted dementia screening tools for Xhosa-speaking
elders in order to conduct a large dementia prevalence study in a low-income community. She represented OPTIMA as a member of the European Alzheimer’s Disease
Consortium (EADC) and was an academic expert on the Nutrition and Mental Performance task force with the Institute of Life Sciences-Europe. She now leads the design
of the assessment and recommendation system for for family carers of people with dementia. She is an Editorial Board member for Journal of Alzheimers
Disease and a reviewer for many medical journals.
Celeste A de Jager
University of Cape Town, South Africa