Intervention Program to Improve Grief-Related Symptoms in Caregivers of Patients Diagnosed With Dementia Bravo Benítez, Jorge Cruz Quintana, Francisco Fernández Alcántara, Manuel Pérez Marfil, María Nieves Ambiguous grief Sorrow Dementia Alzheimer’s disease Caregivers Grief Intervention Programs The objectives of the present study were to adapt a grief intervention program to family caregivers of patients with dementia, and assess its effectiveness in improving the symptoms of grief and other health-related variables. The intervention was based on Shear and Bloom’s grief intervention program, with the necessary adaptations for use in the grieving process for a family member’s illness. A total of 52 family caregivers of individuals with dementia participated. They were evaluated using a battery of self-report measures assessing grief, overload, resilience, post-traumatic growth, experiential avoidance, health-related quality of life, and benefits of care. The results suggest that the program is effective in improving grief symptoms, caregiver burden, resilience, post-traumatic growth, and quality of life of family caregivers. It is necessary to create and implement interventions targeting caregivers’ feelings andmanifestations of ambiguous grief, because there is a lack of programs providing an efficient solution for the mental and physical health of caregivers, and because of the human and socioeconomic cost involved in neglecting this group. 2021-03-19T10:54:36Z 2021-03-19T10:54:36Z 2021-02-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Bravo-Benítez J, Cruz-Quintana F, Fernández-Alcántara M and Pérez-Marfil MN (2021) Intervention Program to Improve Grief-Related Symptoms in Caregivers of Patients Diagnosed With Dementia. Front. Psychol. 12:628750.[doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628750] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/67337 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628750 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Frontiers Media SA