Abstract
Abstract Objective: to investigate the relationships between the perceived quality of life of elderly people who care for other elderly people with neurological diseases (dementia and strokes) and the gender, age and caregiver burden, diagnosis, functional dependence, and cognitive status of the care recipient. Method: 75 caregivers aged over 60 years were interviewed using the Quality of Life Scale (CASP-19) and Zarit Burden Interview. The levels of physical vulnerability of the elderly were identified through the Lawton and Brody questionnaires and the Katz scale and the cognitive assessment of elderly care recipients was assessed with the Clinical Dementia Rating. The data were analyzed by chi-squared test (for comparison of categorical variables), Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis U tests (for comparison of continuous variables). To study the associations between variables, univariate logistic regression analysis was performed, followed by multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: the age, gender of the caregiver, type of neurological condition, and physical and cognitive functioning of the care recipient did not statistically influence the quality of life of the caregiver. Elderly caregivers with higher levels of burden (≥29) were 11.4 times more likely to have a worse quality of life score (CI: 3.16-36.77; p <0.001). Conclusion: the quality of life of the elderly caregiver is negatively influenced by the burden involved in caring for another elderly person. Identifying the negative emotional aspects of caregivers that negatively affect their quality of life should be considered a target for intervention by health teams.
Highlights
Objective: to investigate the relationships between the perceived quality of life of elderly people who care for other elderly people with neurological diseases and the gender, age and caregiver burden, diagnosis, functional dependence, and cognitive status of the care recipient
The present study aimed to investigate the in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they relationships between the perceptions of quality live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and of life of elderly caregivers of elderly people with concerns”
To investigate the quality of life as perceived with dementia and 30 elderly people who cared for by the caregiver, the CASP-19 scale was used for elderly people with strokes were chosen from the individuals aged 55 years and over
Summary
That contribute to the well-being of caregivers in each age group[7, 8]. Those involved in care are constantly exposed the proportion of elderly persons with chronic- to depressive feelings and burden, which increases degenerative diseases. To investigate the quality of life as perceived with dementia and 30 elderly people who cared for by the caregiver, the CASP-19 scale was used for elderly people with strokes were chosen from the individuals aged 55 years and over. The distributions of the caregiver scores on the the caregivers of elderly people with dementia and quality of life and burden scales were submitted to caregivers of the elderly with strokes (Group A and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the evaluation Group B, respectively) in relation to the variables of normality.
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