We do not know to what extent the needs of caregivers involved with patients at the end of life are being met by care providers and whether caregiving at life's end can be a positive experience. We used the Hospice Experience Model of Care as a framework for understanding the effect of transformative tasks on caregiving at life's end. We compared current and bereaved caregivers and then, holdin...

The AIDS epidemic has created an unprecedented number of orphans. While largely absorbed by extended family, this additional responsibility can weigh heavily on their caregivers. The concept of caregiver burden captures multiple dimensions of well-being (e.g., physical, social and psychological). Measuring the extent and determinants of caregiving burden can inform the design of programmes to e...

OBJECTIVE To identify caregivers' burden, evaluate quality of life in them; and predict anxiety and depression in caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Neurology and Psychiatry Department of Lahore General Hospital (LGH), from January to December, 2013. METHODOLOGY A purposive sample of 60 caregivers, who had ...

INTRODUCTION Depression affects nearly 350 million people worldwide and is currently among the most disabling diagnosis in the world. Caregiver burden can be immense in unipolar depression. The present study seeks to fill the knowledge gap by evaluating sociodemographic factors affecting psychological health and burden in caregivers of patients with unipolar depression. METHOD Eighty outpatie...

BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common, life-long paediatric disability. Taking care of a child with CP often results in caregiver burden/strain in the long run. As caregivers play an essential role in the rehabilitation of these children, it is therefore important to routinely screen for health outcomes in informal caregivers. Consequently, a plethora of caregiver burden outcome mea...

BACKGROUND Under the culture of filial piety and due to the Confucianism spirit in China, family caregivers usually undertake the responsibilities of caring for the older adults. They usually suffer from a heavy burden which is believed to impair their mental and physical health. Thus this study aims to describe the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among Chinese caregivers of the older ad...

Abstract Objective Huntington’s disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative condition that characterized by cognitive, motor, and psychiatric dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to explore which characteristics influence caregiver burden in HD. Methods Fifty participants with HD 50 their caregivers participated the at University South Florida. Participants were administered neuropsycholo...