OBJECTIVE There are high rates of stress, distress, and psychological illness in family caregivers of people with dementia. Female caregivers and those caring for people with neuropsychiatric symptoms are particularly at risk. The authors report on the prevalence of anxiety and depression in a sample of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer disease (AD) and compare the characteristics of t...

Aim and objective: This study aimed to identify the variables that contributed Quality of Life (QoL) Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) caregivers, taking into consideration caregiving context, stressors, role strains, resources.Methods: The sample included 102 caregivers AD patients who answered following instruments: Depression, Anxiety Stress Scale-21; Satisfaction with Social Support Scale; Revised M...

Alzheimer’s disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For this reason, technologies to complement this process need to be considered. In this work we propose to adapt Near Field Communications (NFC), applying it to an Alzheimer’s day centre. With a simple interaction, which involv...

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background: despite the outbreak in dental science, oral and dental complications in alzheimer are of the unsolved problems. it is assumed that tumor necrosis factor-α, which is a key factor in alzheimer, has a relation with periodontal complications in patients with alzheimer disease. the present study evaluated the effect of chronic periodontitis on serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-α in ...

objective(s): the aim of this study was to determine whether high-dose radioactive iodine (na131i) outpatient treatment of patients with thyroid carcinoma is a pragmatically safe approach, particularly for the safety of caregivers. methods: a total of 79 patients completed the radiation-safety questionnaires prior to receiving high-dose radioactive iodine treatment. the questionnaire studied th...