objectives: this descriptive study was conducted to determine the communicative abstract problem between elders with alzheimer disease and there caregivers. methods & materials: 100 main caregivers were selected by census. data was obtained by a questionnaire with a good validity and reliability. its reliability was measured by internal consistency (de=0.96) and test-retest (d=0.96) methods. da...

Gamification can provide new perspectives to help training people with Alzheimer and their caregivers. In this paper is shown the technical and social feasibility of launching on the market a serious game for training of Alzheimer`s caregivers. A use case in the north of Spain has been selected. Before that, a state of art of serious games in the field of dementia has been done. The study showe...

BACKGROUND This study was motivated by the growth in the number of elderly with dementia and consequent need to help family caregivers who face the daily stress for long periods of time. The aim was to describe the frequency of some common psychosomatic symptoms in self-assessed health status and to determine whether there are gender differences in these symptoms and the perception of one´s own...

PURPOSE Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism. METHODOLOGY Contingent valuation experiments were conducted in 2000-2002, involving 126 Alzheimer patients and their caregiving spouses living in the Zurich metropolitan are...

This study describes the prevalence of violence and the putative risk factors for violence in 184 Alzheimer patients and their primary caregivers living in the community. Analysis of the severe violence subscale of the Conflict Tactics Scale indicated that 15.8% of patients had been violent in the year since diagnosis. A total of 5.4% of caregivers reported being violent toward the patient. The...

I n t e r v e n t i o n Patient–caregiver dyads were allocated to the Reducing Disability in Alzheimer Disease (RDAD) program (n = 76) or routine medical care (n = 77). Patients and caregivers in the RDAD program received 12 one-hour sessions over 3 months. Patients were given aerobic, endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility training with the goal of ≥ 30 min/d of exercise. Caregivers wer...

Alzheimer disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of Americans. It reduces the ability of the individual to remain independent, places a burden on caregivers, and substantially increases healthcare costs. New treatments are being tested in numerous clinical trials with the goal of preventing or delaying the onset of Alzheimer disease, slowing or modifying the dise...