Background: Dementia and pain are common among the elderly. Many of persons with dementia live at home and are cared by their family caregivers. Pain in persons with dementia can be challenging for family caregivers because the patients are often unable to express their pain verbally. Instead, they might express the pain with disruptive behavioral changes. These changes may cause burden for the...

Background Family caregiving is an increasingly important component of care for patients and the elderly. Objective The aim of this study is to characterize the burden of family caregiving among employed adults. Methods Employed adults (≥18 years) from the 2013 US National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) were classified as family caregivers if they reported currently caring for at least o...

OBJECTIVE to explain comparatively how economic and family caregiver burden in families with bipolar disorder patients change overtime. METHOD one year follow-up of economic and family caregiver burden was carried out on family caregivers of 190 bipolar, 55 diabetes, hypertension and asthma patients and 659 sick controls in the community. Population average generalized estimating equation was...

INTRODUCTION Older hip fracture patients frequently require care across a variety of settings, from multiple individuals, including their family caregivers. We explored issues related to information sharing during transitional care for older hip fracture patients through the perspectives of both health care providers and family caregivers. METHODS Thirty-five semi-structured interviews were c...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the concerns of family caregivers of patients undergoing palliative surgeries for advanced malignancies. DESIGN Descriptive study with repeated measures. SETTING A National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the western United States. SAMPLE Family caregivers (N = 45) of patients with cancer. METHODS Family caregivers were assessed ...

background stroke is an unexpected major life incident that effect on physical functioning and can lead to changes in lifestyle and inability to manage self care, work or leisure. to explore the everyday life situation as experienced by stroke survivors, and their family caregivers, this study was conducted 3-6 month after stroke. methods twelve stroke survivors and thirteen family caregivers w...

BACKGROUND Inadequate studies have been conducted in China to examine quality of life in family caregivers. Quality of life in family caregivers for elderly people with chronic diseases was evaluated, and the demographic and characteristic factors of both elderly people and their caregivers were explored. METHODS The 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) was used to assess health-related q...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore family caregivers' role-implementation experiences at different stages of dementia. PATIENTS AND METHODS For this cross-sectional, exploratory study, 176 dyads of family caregivers and their community-dwelling elderly relatives with dementia were recruited from the neurological clinics of a medical center in Taiwan. The Family Caregiving Invent...

The purpose of this study was to examine if psychosocial intervention for family caregivers made any differences in describing symptoms of dementia in the persons they cared for. The study population comprised family caregivers of persons aged 70 years and older receiving social services and diagnosed with dementia disorders. A group of 129 family caregivers underwent psychosocial intervention ...