Abstract
Despite the considerable gains in public awareness of Alzheimer's disease over the past several decades, patients with Alzheimer's continue to suffer from being stigmatized because of their disease. In many cases, family members also become victims of this stigma, and may experience feelings of shame about the disease as well. The social stigma experienced by patients and caregivers is an important and potentially modifiable contributor to caregiver burden. Previous work has explored the relationship between family stigma and caregiver burden among adult children of persons with Alzheimer's disease in Israel, but no similar data exist for spousal caregivers or caregivers in general in the United States.
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