2018
DOI: 10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-040011
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Abstract: There are gaps in knowledge regarding how the family caregiver deals with the burden of caring for elderly people with dementia.Objective:To evaluate the family caregivers’ perception of quality of life (QoL), burden, resilience and religiosity and relate them with cognitive aspects and occurrence of neuropsychiatric symptoms of elderly with dementia.Methods:Data from the QoL-AD scale, caregivers’ version, burden interview, resilience scale, Beck depression inventory and PDUREL of 50 family caregivers were cor… Show more

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“… 35 Adaptive coping skills such as problem-focused coping strategies may constitute a worthwhile intervention target to prepare families for ESKD treatments given their associations with positive psychological outcomes and capacity to offset negative linkages in the family member–patient dyad. 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 Interventions targeting the transmission of negative emotions and psychological distress in the family member–patient dyad may be especially promising given their potential to improve psychological well-being among family members and patients alike.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 35 Adaptive coping skills such as problem-focused coping strategies may constitute a worthwhile intervention target to prepare families for ESKD treatments given their associations with positive psychological outcomes and capacity to offset negative linkages in the family member–patient dyad. 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 Interventions targeting the transmission of negative emotions and psychological distress in the family member–patient dyad may be especially promising given their potential to improve psychological well-being among family members and patients alike.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…31,32 Cognitive and sociodemographic aspects and neuropsychiatric symptoms in the elderly with dementia are associated with QoL and burden experienced by the caregiver. 30 Caregivers' better perceived QoL was related to improved performance on the category fluency test, suggesting a complex interrelationship between the cognitive impairment of PwAD and perceived QoL of the caregiver. Changes in verbal fluency may occur in the early stages of the progressive impairment of AD clinical condition, which consequently demands more from caregivers as care becomes a much more complex task.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…[27][28][29] Alzheimer's disease not only affects elderly patients by causing suffering, loneliness and vulnerability, but also impacts caregivers and can impair the QoL of both PwAD and caregivers. [30][31][32][33] It is known that different views on the same problem can change the way the disease, and consequently health care, is dealt with. The assessment of the QoL of the caregiver is important because the data collected and analyzed can help provide support to caregivers when caring for themselves and the PwAD.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Previous research has stated that the relationship between the caregiver and care recipient is a factor related to the QOL of the caregiver . Another previous study reported the presence of an inverse correlation between caregiver burden and the QOL of caregivers . In addition, we have studied positive appraisal among caregivers of persons with dementia .…”
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