Caregiving for a spouse with dementia is highly distressing. On average, spouses serving as dementia caregivers spend more than 10h per day providing care for over 5 years. During this time, they experience a type of "living bereavement" as they watch their partners slowly lose their personality...
Being a spousal caregiver (SCG) for a patient with cognitive impairment is well known to be associated with increased risk for dementia and cognitive decline.#This study examined the impact of the care-recipient's cognitive status on lifestyle factors influencing cognitive decline in SCGs, focusing...
Colemanb* &, Marie A. Millsb 展开 摘要: The spiritual aspect of dementia care needs more attention. Caring for a person with dementia inevitably puts at times unreasonable demands upon the family carer and arouses many negative emotions, especially resentment. In this article we discuss how the...
Typically, the spouse or co-habiting partner of the person with dementia assumes the primary caregiving role [1, 6]. Spouses of people with dementia tend to be over 65 and often have their own health conditions to manage [7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Indeed, estimations suggest that just over...
Family caregivers of persons with dementia are faced with complex caregiving management needs. This study had two aims: (1) to identify caregiving management needs of family caregivers of persons with dementia and (2) identify any variables that might in
Most elderly persons with dementia (EDPs) are cared for at home, usually by their spouse or child. The present study examined the health, psychological, an... S Lorensini,GW Bates - 《Australasian Journal on Ageing》 被引量: 9发表: 2010年 The journey with dementia from the perspective of...
A growing number of studies are emphasizing the importance of positive and negative appraisals of caregiving and the utilization of social resources to buffer the negative effects of caring for persons with dementia. By assessing the roles of unmet needs and formal support, this study tested a hypo...
This study examined whether satisfaction from leisure activities moderates the relationship between caregiving demands (i.e., hours per day spent caring for a spouse with dementia) and resting levels of the catecholamines norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (EPI). Spousal caregivers (n=107; mean age...
spouse's death.]]>Focuses on a report from United States researchers on the adverse psychological effects of caring for a spouse with dementia. Conclusion that depression, loneliness and other effects can persist for years after the afflicted spouse dies; Comments of Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, ...
the experience of providing care for a widowed parent is also qualitatively different from providing care to a parent with a spouse or partner as in the former case the adult child may be the sole or major care provider, whereas in the latter case the caring responsibility may be a subsidiar...