Going to Stay at Home: continuation, translation and evalution of an intensive residential program aimed at the carer of persons with dementia to reduce carer burden and neuropsychiatric symptoms of persons with dementia.

INTERVENTION: 7‐ day residential intensive training of carers of people with dementia. The training is an intensive multi‐component and multi‐model training comprising psycho‐social and psycho educational interventions and training of practical skills. Parallel to this training their partners with dementia receive an own program with therapeutic components and pleasant activities. The control group will receive care as usual. CONDITION: Quality of life, Caregivers, Informal care‐givers, Dementia, Neuropsychiatric disorders ; ; PRIMARY OUTCOME: Carer: Self Rated Burden Scale‐ VAS, CarerQol‐7D; CarerQol‐VAS; ; ; ; Person with dementia: Neuro Psychiatric Inventory SECONDARY OUTCOME: Carer: experienced health (RAND 36/SF36); ; ; use of facilities and health care, ; ; quality of life (EQ5D), use of psychotropic drugs, depression: Center for Epidemiologic Studies‐ Depression (CES‐D) and anxiety: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, anxiety subscale (HADS‐A). ; ; Person with dementia: ; ; Katz index of independence basic activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL); Dementia Quality of life instrument DQI, use of facilities and health care; agitation: Cohen‐Mansfield Agitation Inventory‐ Community: (CMAI‐C); severity of dementia: Geriatric Deterioration Scale (GDS‐Reisberg); use of psychotropic drugs ; ; INCLUSION CRITERIA: Couples of caregiver and person with dementia living together Person with dementia: diagnosis dementia, understanding and speaking Dutch Caregivers: understanding and speaking Dutch