Conclusions
dementia
SAID
Telephone-based aftercare groups for family carers of people with dementia are a useful and practical instrument in the context of rehab aftercare and can be conducted with little effort. They offer temporary support after rehab treatment and can help to deepen the learned knowledge, to ask thematic questions and to provid prepared aftercare recommendations during their implementation. This is particularly important in view of the requirements of the health insurance funds' discharge management (framework contract on discharge management in medical according rehab to the German Social Code V). The telephone-based setting was particularly accessible to the age group over sixty, since in Germany, unlike a computer, a telephone is available in virtually every household in this age group and the use of one is familiar. On the whole, it can be said that the telephone-based groups are very well accepted, the group effect factor supports the positive experience and learning from the other family carers in the group can provide longer professional support through the implementation of this aftercare offer.