Depressive Symptomatology in First-Degree Family Caregivers of Alzheimer Disease Patients: A Cross-Ethnic Comparison

Harwood, Dylan G.; Barker, Warren W.; Cantillon, Marc; Loewenstein, David; Ownby, Raymond L.; Duara, Ranjan

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“…Caregivers with a feeling of poor wellbeing in the sense of general health, depression and QoL tend to overestimate functional disabilities and underestimate the QoL of patients, and this is related to female caregiving. This result is consistent with a number of studies that found that female caregivers are more likely than males to suffer from poor wellbeing and depression associated with emotional stress due to caregiving [12,13]. At least theoretically, it seems plausible that the most strenuous caregiving tasks (i.e.…”

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Staging Dementia Using Proxy-Reported Activities of Daily Living

Jonas

Schiffczyk²,

Lahmeyer³

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Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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Background/Aim: It has been questioned whether cognitive and behavioral scales sufficiently address the impact of dementia on the everyday life of patients. Therefore, other instruments are used, such as scales of activities of daily living (ADL). Our goal was to analyze variables influencing the appraisal of ADL. Method: Prospective cohort study on 202 patients with dementia and their proxies. Results: Two clusters of patients were identified. These clusters differed significantly in their constituting variables and all variables that informants reported regarding the patients. However, severity of dementia and other variables were similar in the two clusters. Conclusion: We conclude that ratings of basic and instrumental ADL by proxy are modulated by the informants’ variables, particularly if these informants are female. Use of ADL scales to assess the impact of dementia or treatment thereof needs to be handled cautiously.

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“…Depression alone occurs in about 1 out of 3 dementia caregivers [10,11]. This particularly seems to apply to female caregivers [12,13] and caregivers of younger age [14]. Negative thinking is a core symptom of depression [15] and may thus bring about a negative appraisal of the situation.…”

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Staging Dementia Using Proxy-Reported Activities of Daily Living

Jonas

Schiffczyk²,

Lahmeyer³

et al. 2011

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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“…Although several studies have identi®ed high levels of subjective burden and depression in Hispanic caregivers Monk, 1990, 1993;Harwood et al, 1998;Valle, 1994), no investigations have addressed the positive outcomes of caregiving in this population. Identifying the antecedents of positive and negative appraisal among Hispanic caregivers is paramount, as the Hispanic elderly (65) community is projected to increase by 555%, compared to 95% among non-Hispanic whites, over the next 40 years (US Bureau of the Census, 1996).…”

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Predictors of positive and negative appraisal among Cuban American caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

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Barker

Ownby

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Int. J. Geriat. Psychiatry

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“…More intensive caregivers (Majerovitz 1995;Sansoni et al 2004) and female spousal caregivers (Harwood et al 1998;Thompson et al 2004) are particularly prone to experiencing anxiety and depression (Majerovitz 1995;Sansoni et al 2004). Others have found that there are blood pressure (Shaw et al 1999;Grant et al 2002) and coronary heart disease effects of caregiving, with blood pressure effects persisting at least a year after death of the spousal care recipient (Grant et al 2002).…”

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Caring for Mom and Neglecting Yourself? The Health Effects of Caring for an Elderly Parent

Coe

Houtven

2008

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We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver. We address the endogeneity of the selection in and out of caregiving using an instrumental variable approach, and carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child using fixed effects and Arellano-Bond estimation techniques. Continued caregiving over time increases depressive symptoms for married women and married men. In addition, the increase in depressive symptoms is persistent for married men. Depressive symptoms for single men and women are not affected by continued caregiving. There is a small protective effect on the likelihood (10%) of having any heart conditions among married women who continue caregiving.Robustness checks confirm that the increase in depressive symptoms and decrease in likelihood of heart conditions can be directly attributable to caregiving behavior, and not due to a direct effect of the death of the mother. The initial onset of caregiving, by contrast, has no immediate effects on physical or mental health for any subgroup of caregivers.3

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Depressive Symptomatology in First-Degree Family Caregivers of Alzheimer Disease Patients: A Cross-Ethnic Comparison

Cited by 98 publications

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Staging Dementia Using Proxy-Reported Activities of Daily Living

Staging Dementia Using Proxy-Reported Activities of Daily Living

Predictors of positive and negative appraisal among Cuban American caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients

Caring for Mom and Neglecting Yourself? The Health Effects of Caring for an Elderly Parent

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