One of the most difficulty issues which Korea has gone through with the process of aging population
might be to increase rapidly the numbers of people with dementia. While the number of nursing facilities
for dementia patients has been increasing, the major resources for people with dementia should be their
family members. However, if the family members do not understand general characteristics of dementia
well, their quality of life might be getting worse and worse while they continue to care for the patient Family and caregives support programs such as counseling, psychodrama, narrating memoirs of family care,
and using of assistive technology which can be easily approached in their community were introduced in
this paper. The primary function of the programs should be to make them understand what the
characteristics are, but the ultimate function would be to imporve their quality of life through instructing
them better skills of communication with dementia patients. Several strategies which can maximize effects
of family support suggested in the last part of this paper.