Sources
Sources, plainly cited.
Everything this part of the site rests on, in three categories that are never blended, because the difference between them is the whole point.
Evidence about dementia caregiving. Evidence about supporting caregivers. And direct evidence about Proxi, which is currently empty.
Why three categories and not one list.
A bibliography that mixes what is known about caregiving with what is known about our product lets the first borrow credibility from the second.
Keeping them apart means the third category can be honest. Right now it is empty, and a reader can see that in about two seconds.
That is the most useful thing on this page.
Direct evidence about Proxi
- Nothing yet.There is no published, peer-reviewed evidence about Proxi. When there is, it appears in this category and nowhere else, with its method attached. Until then this space stays empty on purpose.
Evidence about dementia caregiving
What happens to the person doing the care. The basis of the framework.
- Schulz & Beach, JAMA 1999The Caregiver Health Effects Study. The mortality finding the framework leans on most heavily.
- Kiecolt-Glaser and colleagues, 1987 to 2003A body of work on immune function, wound healing and vaccine response in dementia caregivers.
- Zarit Burden Interview literatureThe instrument the framework is most often confused with, and the reason a distinction is needed.
Evidence about supporting caregivers
What has been tried, by others, and what the speech and hearing work rests on.
- Caregiver support programme evaluationsStructured programmes ranked by strength of evidence. Other people’s interventions, not ours.
- International caregiver policy comparisonsHow other health systems treat the family caregiver as a recipient of care.
- Clear-speech research, Picheny, Durlach & Braida, 1985Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. The origin of the intelligibility work the voice engine descends from.
- Familiar-voice intelligibility, Souza and colleagues, 2013A known voice is measurably easier to understand under degraded conditions, not only preferred.
If we have read any of this wrong, tell us.
We would rather be corrected than quoted. Anything on this site that misstates a source is a defect, and we will treat it as one.
What these sources are proposed to add up to.
The findings themselves, grouped by what they measure.
Proxi is not emergency support and does not provide medical advice.