P2-086: Communication trainings for caregivers of dementia patients: TANDEM project

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Vascular Dementia (VD) increasingly diminish the ability to communicate (Bickel et al., 2000). This seems to be one of the reasons that patients feel excluded from the social world, and results in a progressing social withdrawal and apathy of the suffering person (Ellis & Astell, 2004). Apathy is one of the most common neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementia and in most cases is accompanied by signs of social...