Dementia Care-Receiver Needs and their Impact on Caregivers

Carol J. Farran, Eleanora Keane-Hagerty, Lydia Tatarowicz and Elaine Scorza
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Carol J. Farran: Rush University College of Nursing
Eleanora Keane-Hagerty: Rush University College of Nursing
Lydia Tatarowicz: Rush University College of Nursing
Elaine Scorza: Rush University College of Nursing

Clinical Nursing Research, 1993, vol. 2, issue 1, 86-97

Abstract: This study examines home-based persons with dementia, their needs associated with activities of daily living (ADL), cognitive impairment, and disruptive behaviors, and the relationship of these needs to caregiver distress and burden. Findings suggest that selected disruptive behaviors were most distressing to caregivers, and that when disruptive behaviors occurred more frequently, caregivers were significantly more distressed with these behaviors and reported higher levels of burden. The frequency of cognitive impairment behaviors and level of ADL impairment were not significantly related to caregiver burden, but caregiver distress with these needs was significantly related to caregiver burden.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1177/105477389300200108

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