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Burden of caregiving in mild to moderate dementia
— an Asian experience | | Author(s) | P'ing Ping Joy Lim, Suresh Sahadevan, Geok Kim Choo |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 11, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 411-420 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Stress ; Informal care ; Asian people ; Social surveys ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | The principal caregivers of 93 Asian patients with mild to moderate dementia attending an outpatient cognitive assessment clinic in Singapore were interviewed concerning patients' behavioural and functional abnormalities, and on caregiving problems in looking after patients, the duration of their caregiving, feelings of anger and/or depression, their financial status, and on intentions to institutionalise patients. 49% of caregivers reported problems in looking after patients; their perception of difficulties was significantly associated with institutionalisation plans for patients. Logistic regression analysis using a forward variable selection procedure showed two of the patients' behavioural abnormalities (repetition, agitation) and one of their functional impairments (urinary incontinence), as well as carers' depressed feelings to be predictive of carers' problematic status. Medical assessment in the early stages of dementia must also evaluate behavioural, functional and social dimensions of the illness, so that appropriate interventions can be implemented to reduce caregiving burden and to delay institutionalisation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000208210 A |
| Classmark | EA: QNH: P6: TKK: 3F: 7XD |
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