Self-care in chronic diseases. The patient-caregiver dyad in the Albanian reality

Multiple chronic diseases mostly affect people over 65 years old, when age-related changes, complicated by physical, cognitive, and emotional problems accelerate functional decline. This increases the elderly population to a high risk of deterioration their health condition predisposes various diseases. Objective: Patient self-care caregiver’s contribution patient is main purpose this study. Observation reduce burden disease obtain better results for life. Methods: Is multicenter transversal study at zero time, provides administration validated questionnaire in Albanian language addressed sample 30 patient-caregiver dyads population, using specific tools evaluate management pathology patient’s skills caregiver care framework. Results: Patients were mainly male (53%) with an average age 74 years. The reported selfcare maintenance score was 57.63, monitoring 55.00 59.11. For caregivers most prevalent subjects female (60%) 60 old. 47.08, 59.00. Discussion: seeks determine maintenance, monitoring, management, confidence including sociodemographic clinical variables assess outcomes context multiple conditions. Keywords: illness, disease, nursing care, self-care.