Risk Factors of Caregiver Burden Among Patients with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Caregivers experience a higher burden due to disease symptoms such as impairment of functional autonomy and behavioral and cognitive impairment, whatever the etiology of the cognitive decline.

Combined Exercise and Cognitive Training System for Dementia Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…The results confirmed that this system, which can also be implemented at home, is effective for alleviating cognitive impairment. This result seems to be of significant value not only for older adults with dementia, but also for caregivers who experience great burdens while providing care to such patients [10][11][12].…”

How useful is the EQ-5D in assessing the impact of caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease?

“…However, our aim was to understand how these commonly reported measures improve our understanding of the impact of AD for the caregiver and enhance understanding of how the measures best align with the decline in patients’ AD severity. Third, other factors that may influence caregiver HRQoL, burden and time spent caring, such as depression in the caregiver or neuropsychiatric symptoms in the person with AD dementia [2, 6, 31, 32], were not included within the current objective of our analyses. Fourth, our analysis is based only on those caregivers with available data at 18 months, and evaluated score data at baseline and 18 months only.…”

Improving Quality of Life in Caregivers of Alzheimer Dementia Patients- A Stepwise Approach

“…[35] ZBI scores correlated with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scores, Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) scores, antidepressant drugs prescriptions, and MMSE scores, while the etiology of the dementia and disease stage were not significantly correlated with the caregivers' burden: ZBI decreased by 0.34 point for every unit of IADL, and by 0.03 point for every unit of MMSE; ZBI increased by 0.03 point for every unit of NPI. [36] A number of 5 area of the NPI increased the ZBI scores: apathy, agitation, aberrant motor behavior, appetite disorders, and irritability, and 5 domains of the IADL increased the ZBI values-the ability to handle finances, food preparation, responsibility to take medications, mode of transportation, and ability to use the telephone. [36] A 3-year analysis of AD caregiver burden trajectories showed that spoused and adult children who lived with their parent were more likely to belong to the group with initial moderate ZBI scores that increased gradually, while being the sole caregiver, and poor mental health are also relevant for the caregiver perceived burden.…”

“…[36] A number of 5 area of the NPI increased the ZBI scores: apathy, agitation, aberrant motor behavior, appetite disorders, and irritability, and 5 domains of the IADL increased the ZBI values-the ability to handle finances, food preparation, responsibility to take medications, mode of transportation, and ability to use the telephone. [36] A 3-year analysis of AD caregiver burden trajectories showed that spoused and adult children who lived with their parent were more likely to belong to the group with initial moderate ZBI scores that increased gradually, while being the sole caregiver, and poor mental health are also relevant for the caregiver perceived burden. [37] ZBI scores were higher in patients with lower MMSE scores, and Dementia Behavior Disturbance Scale (DBD) score was associated with caregiver burden in all patients.…”