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Factors related to perceived quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease
— the patient's perception compared with that of caregivers | | Author(s) | Josep Lluís Conde-Sala, Josep Garre-Olmo, Oriol Turró-Garriga |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 24, no 6, June 2009 |
| Pages | pp 585-594 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Patients ; Informal care ; Attitude ; Quality of life ; Comparison ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Care recipients' and caregivers' perceptions of quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease were compared in a cross-sectional analytical study of 236 Spanish patients and their carers using the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD) scale, socio-demographic data and clinical examination. Results showed that patients scored the QoL-AD more favourably than did caregivers. Cognitive deterioration did not affect the perception of QoL-AD in both patients and caregivers. Greater functional autonomy was associated with a better perception of the QoL-AD in patients and even more so in caregivers. In carers, burden and mental health were inversely associated with the QoL-AD. Such scores of both patients and caregivers were higher for men, married subjects, those who lived with their spouse and those living in their own home. When the carer was a spouse, both patients and caregivers scored the QoL-AD higher than when the carer was a son or daughter. In conclusion, patients have a better perception of QoL. Caregivers give a more negative evaluation of neuropsychiatric symptoms, but have a more positive view of functional autonomy. Carers who are spouses have a better perception of QoL in patients than do carers who are sons or daughters. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090824203 A |
| Classmark | EA: LF: P6: DP: F:59: 48: 76S |
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