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Awareness of deficit in Alzheimer's disease — relation to caregiver burden
Author(s)	Benjamin Seltzer, Jennifer J Vasterling, JoAnne Yoder, Kenneth A Thompson
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 1, February 1997
Pages	pp 20-24
Keywords	Dementia ; Family care ; Recognition ; Correlation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show varying degrees of awareness of their deficits. To examine the effect of this on distress experienced by family care givers, the authors analysed burden in relation to awareness of deficit in three different functional domains: memory, social awareness, and self-care. The relationship of burden to selected sociodemographic variables was also explored. Results of multiple regression analyses suggest that caregiver burden is associated with impaired patient awareness of memory deficit independent of disease stage and dementia severity. These findings suggest that impaired awareness may be an important mediator of caregiver burden, a concern in the management of AD.
Accession Number	CPA-970702003 A
Classmark	EA: P6:SJ: 4AD: 49: 7T
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