BACKGROUND There is a lack of studies of the size of burden associated with informal care giving in psychosis. AIMS To evaluate the objective and subjective burden of informal care giving to patients with psychoses, and to compare a diary and recall method for assessments of objective burden. METHOD Patients and their informal caregivers were recruited...

UNLABELLED Prevalence of cirrhosis among older adults is expected to increase; therefore, we studied the health status, functional disability, and need for supportive care in a large national sample of individuals with cirrhosis. A prospective cohort of individuals with cirrhosis was identified within the longitudinal, nationally representative Health and Retirement Study. Cirrhosis cases were ...

BACKGROUND Dementia care in the Netherlands is shifting from fragmented, ad hoc care to more coordinated and personalised care. Case management contributes to this shift. The linkage model and a combination of intensive case management and joint agency care models were selected based on their emerging prominence in the Netherlands. It is unclear if these different forms of case management are m...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD), the commonest cause of dementia, represents a significant cost to UK society. This analysis describes resource utilisation, costs and clinical outcomes in non-institutionalised patients with AD in the UK. METHODS The GERAS prospective observational study assessed societal costs associated with AD for patients and caregivers over 18 months, stratified accor...

Abstract Background Married female caregivers face a higher risk of an informal care burden than other caregivers. No study has explored the effect socioeconomic status (SES) on intensity provided by married in China. The purpose this is to empirically examine how SES affects they provide for their parents/parents-in-law Methods data were drawn from 8 waves China Health and Nutrition Survey (CH...

Patients 100 patients who were > 65 years of age (mean age 79 y, 53% women), entitled to payments from the Social Insurance Institution for community care because they had dementia, and lived at home with primary support from an informal caregiver (mean age 64 y, 69% women). Exclusion criteria were other severe diseases that might lead to institutionalisation or inability of patients and caregi...

BACKGROUND Despite the existence of formal professional support services, informal support (mainly family members) continues to be the main source of eldercare, especially for those who are dependent or disabled. Professionals on the primary health care are the ideal choice to educate, provide psychological support, and help to mobilize social resources available to the informal caregiver.Contr...

P a t i e n t s 100 patients who were ≥ 65 years of age (mean age 79 y, 53% women), who were entitled to payments from the Social Insurance Institution for community care because they had dementia, and who lived at home with primary support from an informal caregiver. Exclusion criteria were other severe diseases that might lead to institutionalization or inability of caregivers to participate ...

PURPOSE There is a growing consensus that quality of care for frail elders should include family and be evaluated in terms of patient-centered, family-focused care (PCFFC). Family caregivers are in a unique and sometimes sole position to evaluate such care. In the context of caring for physically frail elders, this study examined the extent to which objective burden was associated with caregive...