PURPOSE This article examines family caregiver burden after placement of a relative with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia in a nursing home. DESIGN AND METHODS A systems-oriented contextual approach was used to study burden in 276 family caregivers. RESULTS SAS PROC MIXED analysis showed burden to be associated with caregiver age, length of time involved in caregiving, custodial un...

OBJECTIVE Many studies that document child outcomes in the context of parental HIV - which has been established as a risk factor for child development - focus on older children/adolescents. Studies also concentrate on the status of the primary caregiver, not other household members who might be infected. DESIGN This study examined the effects of caregiver and household HIV on child developmen...

OBJECTIVE This work sought to develop, validate, and determine the reliability of an instrument on Competency in Homecare of the family caregiver of an individual with chronic disease. METHODOLOGY The test validation study was carried out in the following phases: 1) literature review; 2) analysis of results of programs to help family caregivers in Latin America; 3) exploration of the classifi...

Family caregivers of patients with terminal-stage cancer have numerous roles as caregivers, which can influence their anticipatory grief. The purpose of this study was to clarify how talking to family caregivers of patients with terminal illness using the narrative approach can influence such caregivers' process of anticipatory grief. We conducted the narrative approach as an intervention with ...

Background The most common neurodegenerative disease is dementia. Family of dementia patients says that their lives have been changed extensively after happening of dementia to their patients. One of the problems of family and caregivers is depression of the caregiver. In this study, we aimed to find the prevalence of depression and factors can affect depression in the dementia caregivers. Ma...