Emotional Distress amongst the Supporters of the Elderly Mentally Infirm

Gilleard, Chris; Belford, H; Gilleard, Esen; Whittick, Janice E.; Gledhill, Kris

doi:10.1192/bjp.145.2.172

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“…Aharon-Peretz, Masiah, Pillar, Epstein, Tzischinsky, & Lavie, 1991). Sleep disorders are among the disturbances of dementia patients least tolerated by family care providers (Gilleard, Belford, Gilleard, Whittick, & Gledhill, 1984;Pollak, Perlick, Linsner, Wenston, & Heieh, 1990;Sanford, 1975). VD patients also placed a greater financial burden on caregiving relatives than did DAT patients.…”

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Vascular Dementia Versus Dementia of Alzheimer's Type: Do They Have Differential Effects on Caregivers' Burden?

Vetter

Krauss

Steiner

et al. 1999

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Objectives.We investigated homecare patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT; n = 36) or vascular dementia (VD; n = 36) and their care-providing relatives regarding clinical and psychosocial variables to determine whether DAT and VD impose different burdens on caregivers.Method. All patients were diagnosed according to ICD-10 criteria. The diagnoses were confirmed by internal medical, clinical-neurological, and psychiatric parameters. The severity of the dementias was graded according to the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS). Caregiving relatives responded to the Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease Rating Scale (BAD), the Blessed Dementia Scale (BDS), and the Screen for Caregiver Burden (SCB).Results. Analyses revealed that caregivers' burden (SCB), disease symptoms and personality changes of patients (BAD), and the patients' inability to cope with everyday tasks (BDS) were sharply higher for DAT than for VD patients in the group with severe dementia. Concerning patients with mild or moderately severe disease, scores in the DAT group were similar or lower than those in the VD group.Conclusion. In early stages, VD patients impose a greater burden on relatives than do patients with DAT. In severe stages this relationship undergoes a reversal, with relatives of DAT patients experiencing the burden more adversely than those of VD patients. The differences in the onset and course characteristics, as well as the specific differences between these two types of dementia with respect to caregiver burden factors, call for their diagnostic separation and the development of specific homecare support systems for family caregivers.

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Vascular Dementia Versus Dementia of Alzheimer's Type: Do They Have Differential Effects on Caregivers' Burden?

Vetter

Krauss

Steiner

et al. 1999

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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“…25,31 O tempo gasto pelos cuidadores auxiliando os sujeitos em atividades rotineiras foi avaliado com o Caregiver Activity Survey 5 e Time Spent in Week Before Interview with Dependent. 10 Os instrumentos para avaliação dos sujeitos idosos e seus cuidadores foram traduzidos para o português e utilizados nos três centros do Grupo 10/66 no Brasil.…”

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Investigações epidemiológicas sobre demência nos países em desenvolvimento

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ResumoNa medida em que a população mundial está envelhecendo, a demência está se constituindo em importante problema de saúde pública, particularmente nos países em desenvolvimento. Investigações epidemiológicas nestes países são escassas e apresentam dificuldades metodológicas adicionais, principalmente no que se refere à adequação sociocultural dos instrumentos utilizados para a definição de casos. Tendo em vista estas preocupações, foi fundado o "Grupo de Pesquisa em Demência 10/66", que é constituído por uma rede internacional de pesquisadores, predominantemente de países em desenvolvimento. O nome do grupo tem como referência o paradoxo de que menos de 10% dos estudos populacionais sobre demência são dirigidos aos 2/3 ou mais de casos de pessoas com demência que vivem em países em desenvolvimento. O objetivo do artigo é atualizar informações da literatura sobre as diferenças de prevalência e incidência de demência encontradas em países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Abstract As the world population is ageing, dementia becomes an important public health problem, particularly in developing countries. Epidemiological research in these settings is scarce and present additional methodological difficulties, mainly regarding the socio-cultural adequacy of instruments used to identify cases of dementia. As a result of these concerns the 10/66 Dementia Research Group was founded to fill this gap. This is an international network of investigators, mostly from developing countries,and the group's name was based on the paradox that less than 10% of the populationbased studies on dementia are directed to 2/3 or more cases of people with dementia living in developing countries. The aim of the paper is to update data in the literature regarding the differences in dementia prevalence and incidence seen in developed and developing countries.

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“…Therefore, in order to study the association between family closeness per se and caregiver health, it is essential to control for caregiver age and sex. six investigators (102,107,112,116,123,128) found no effect of kinship tie on various measures of caregiver health. Gilhooly (103) found no association between kinship tie and morale; however, the mental health of those who were closely related to the patient was poorer than those who were more distantly related.…”

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