Family involvement in care of Korean and US family members of persons with dementia in long term care

Abstract

till depression in being cared of the geriatric patients with dementia. Assessment caregiver’s quality of life is important so we can make health plan for both of them. Methods: This is analytic research with cross sectional approach by using 80 respondent. WHOQOL-BREF instrument was used to measure the caregiver’s quality of life, CDR instrument was used to measure the severity of dementia, ADL/IADL instrument was used to measure the independency of dementia and NPI instrument was used to measure the changes of behavior and psychological of dementia. Data analysis technique with Kruskal Wallis, MannWhitney U and Spearman Statistic test.Results: There is a significant differences at caregiver’s quality of life with dementia patient. The severity of physical health is p 1⁄4 0.026 and environmental domain is p1⁄4 0.036. There is a significant differences at caregiver’s quality of life with dementia patients degree of dependency at social relation domain (p 1⁄4 0.049), and environmental domain (p 1⁄4 0.031). There is a significant differences at caregiver’s quality of lifewith dementia patients with patient’s independency function at psychological domain (p1⁄4 0.006)and social relation domain (p 1⁄4 0.005). Conclusions: There is a significant differences at caregiver’s quality of life who care of dementia patient in RSCM Jakarta. The differences could be analyzed further to make a screening to the caregiver who cared of dementia patient to help the caregivers find out their quality of life so that quality of life both of them would be better.