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Facing difficulties due to dementia syndromes, systemic care is necessary. Amongst therapies assessed specifically to caregivers, psychoeducative steps seem to be the strongest effective one on neuropsychiatrics symptoms. Psychoeducations tend to teach the caregivers to modify their interactions with patients via a better understanding of illnesses and patients. Our training "Pour mieux vivre avec la maladie d'Alzheimer", applied in groups of eight to twelve persons, consists in twelve sessions of two hours each. To assure the biggest possible availability, we recently incorporated the concomitant coverage of patients into artistic workshops. These sessions of art-therapy realized in parallel to our psychoeducative program will thus be estimated according to the same rigorous methodology. The critical evaluations realized by participants at the end of our program reflect the outcome of our main objective (to teach to modify interactions with the patients) while contributing to the improvement of social contacts and to the learning of calling to existing helps. These preliminary results strongly argue for the pursuit and even extension of this kind of caregiver's management.

Facing difficulties due to dementia syndromes, systemic care is necessary. But nevertheless, caregivers are generally lacking in medical welfare. Therapies assessed specifically to caregivers are missing. Amongst these, psychoeducative steps seem to be the strongest effective's one on neuropsychiatrics symptoms. Psychoeducations tend to learn to caregivers to modify their interactions with patients via a better understanding of illnesses and patients. Our training "Pour mieux vivre avec la maladie d'Alzheimer ", done in groups of eight to twelve persons, is constituted of twelve sessions of two hours each. Complete formation includes behavioural and cognitive aspects of the disease and proposes some multidimensional approach which content at least pedagogical, psychological and cognitivo behavioural aspects. We illustrate here with the use of two peculiar cases that our program can reach its objectives. These preliminary results strongly argue for the pursuit and even extension of this kind of caregiver's management.