BACKGROUND Caregiver exhaustion is a frequent consequence of sleep disturbance and rest-activity rhythm disruption that occurs in dementia. This exhaustion is the causal factor most frequently cited by caregivers in making the decision to institutionalize patients with dementia. Recent studies have implicated dysfunction of the circadian pacemaker in the etiology of these disturbances in dement...

Hospice is the standard method for providing quality end-of-life care in the United States. However, studies reveal that persons with dementia are infrequently referred to hospice, that barriers exist to increasing hospice utilization in this population, and that patients with dementia would benefit from hospice or hospice-like services earlier in the disease course. The Palliative Excellence i...

This study identifies predictors of placement or death in a large ethnically/racially diverse sample of moderately impaired Alzheimer disease patients residing in the community. Patients and caregivers were followed for 18 months with 4 assessments at 6-month intervals. Multinomial regression was used to identify caregiver and patient baseline characteristics and changes over time as predictors...

objectives: one of the principle of mental health programs is burden and coping of caregivers of chronically mental disorders patients. in this regard, the aim of present study was to measure the amount of burden and relationship between burden and their coping strategies of caregivers. methods: one hundred of main caregivers of patients (50 schizophrenic patients, 50 bipolar patients) from bot...

Background: Alzheimer dementia as the most common cause of dementia is a chronic, progressive, irreversible and incurable disease. The second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer is vascular dementia. One of the systems involved in dementia is the visuospatial system and visual evoked potential (VEP) can be one of the diagnostic methods for this disease. Therefore, the present study ai...

A qualidade de vida dos cuidadores idosos portadores demência Alzheimer sofre influência diversos fatores, corroborando para a sobrecarga trabalho, tornando-os mais favoráveis complicações físicas e mentais decorrentes do processo cuidar. Objetivo: Identificar os fatores associados demências Alzheimer. Métodos: Trata-se uma Revisão Integrativa da Literatura, conduzida em seis etapas. Seguiu-se ...

BACKGROUND Low-grade hypercoagulability might be one pathway to explain how the chronic stress of dementia caregiving increases cardiovascular disease risk, but the specific aspects of caregiver stress that elicit hypercoagulability are elusive. We hypothesized that dementia patients' problem behaviors and negative reactions of caregivers to these behaviors would relate to hypercoagulability in...