Mental health among younger and older caregivers of dementia patients

Abstract

Dementia caregivers had a lower mental QOL than community residents. To maintain caregivers' mental QOL, it is necessary to provide younger caregivers with skills or professional interventions for dealing with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, and older caregivers must be offered adequate care support.

Depression Among Caregivers of Patients With Dementia

“…Another aspect that showed significance in the study conducted in Kumamoto University Hospital is older age, which did not significantly affect depression rates in our study; this could be because of cultural differences and the strong spiritual beliefs we have observed in the older population in the Saudi culture. 28 Moreover, similar to our study, time spent with the patient during the week did not significantly affect depression, and that may be because time spent with the patient is part of the duties caregivers feel they should provide. 29…”

Caregiver profiles in dementia related to quality of life, depression and perseverance time in the European Actifcare study: the importance of social health

“…Different interventions for supporting informal caregivers that targeted caregivers' mental health or quality of life have been studied previously and many were to some extent effective, but published findings are rather inconsistent (Koyama et al, 2016;Vandepitte et al, 2016), and it is unknown which intervention is most effective. Furthermore, due to large numbers of informal caregivers it is logistically difficult and would be highly costly to target all caregivers of PWD with certain interventions to support their health and perseverance time in caregiving.…”

“…age, sex, education, caregiving-related stress, stress-mediators, duration of caregiving, time spent with PWD and caregiver-patient relationship, may influence quality of life of the caregiver (Bergvall et al, 2011;Chiao, Wu, & Hsiao, 2015;Torti, Gwyther, Reed, Friedman, & Schulman, 2004). Although caregiving in general is associated with apparently negative outcomes (Srivastava, Tripathi, Tiwari, Singh, & Tripathi, 2016) (Koyama et al, 2016) (Gaugler, Kane, Kane, Clay, & Newcomer, 2005;Torti et al, 2004), compared with the general population, individual differences could be informative regarding adaptation and social health.…”

Longitudinal study of factors associated with informal care provision: Evidence from older Australians

“…Furthermore, not much research has focused on older caregivers who are significantly different from young caregivers. For example, older informal caregivers have a different attitude towards caregiving and face different challenges from their younger counterparts . Compared with younger caregivers, older caregivers more typically feel they have no choice in taking on the care of their immediate family members .…”