OBJECTIVE: Supportive behaviors (both instrumental and emotional) from spouses and close family members can impact the trajectory of older adults' @entity308 symptoms. Interventions that target both the @entity1 and support @entity1 may be more effective than interventions that target the @entity1 only, in terms of alleviating mood symptoms in the identified @entity1 . The purpose of this paper was to review the characteristics and findings of dyadic and family-oriented interventions for late-life @entity1316 to determine if they are effective and beneficial. METHODS: Following PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review of reports in the literature on dyadic or family-oriented interventions for late-life @entity1316 . We searched PubMed, OVID PsycINFO, and EMBASE for peer-reviewed journal articles in English through October 2014. RESULTS: We identified 13 articles, representing a total of 10 independent investigations. Identified studies focused on spouses and close family members as support @entity1 . Effect sizes for dyadic interventions that treated @entity308 were, on average, moderately strong, while effect sizes for dyadic interventions that reduced @entity308 symptoms were generally small. We did not identify any dyadic studies that treated @entity162 . CONCLUSIONS: This review showed that dyadic interventions are feasible and that these interventions can decrease symptomatology in individuals who have @entity308 . Research is needed to understand the relative efficacy of a dyadic approach over a single-target approach in treating @entity308 . Copyright    2016 John Wiley _ Sons, Ltd.

Systematic review of dyadic and family-oriented interventions for late-life XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patient', 'person', 'persons'] @entity1316 :: ('MESH:D019964', 'Disease') :: ['mood disorders'] @entity162 :: ('MESH:D001714', 'Disease') :: ['bipolar disorder'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression', 'major depressive disorder', 'depressive']
@entity308 :: (MESH:D003866,Disease) :: ['depression']
