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Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study
OBJECTIVE: The provision of care for elderly people with dementia by healthy elderly caregivers is one of the new health-care paradigms in South Korea. The aim of this study was to determine whether this type of care, which includes cognitive stimulation, would improve the cognitive function of deme...
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Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28845173 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2017.14.4.458 |
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author | Kang, Seung-Gul Na, Kyoung-Sae Kang, Jae Myeong Yeon, Byeong Kil Lee, Jun-Young Cho, Seong-Jin |
author_facet | Kang, Seung-Gul Na, Kyoung-Sae Kang, Jae Myeong Yeon, Byeong Kil Lee, Jun-Young Cho, Seong-Jin |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The provision of care for elderly people with dementia by healthy elderly caregivers is one of the new health-care paradigms in South Korea. The aim of this study was to determine whether this type of care, which includes cognitive stimulation, would improve the cognitive function of dementia patients and the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregiver. METHODS: Totals of 132 dementia patients and 197 healthy elderly caregivers participated in this study. We evaluated the cognitive function of the dementia patients at baseline and after providing the program for 6 months using the Korean version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease, 1st Edition (CERAD-K). We also evaluated the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregivers using the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Short Version (WHOQOL-BREF) at baseline and after 6 months. RESULTS: The word-list memory results of CERAD-K for the included dementia patients improved after 6 months (Z=-2.855, p=0.004). The WHOQOL-BREF score among the elderly caregiver also improved significantly (Z=-2.354, p=0.019). CONCLUSION: These data suggest that dementia care is associated with improvements in both the cognitive function of dementia patients and the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregivers. |
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spelling | pubmed-55614042017-08-25 Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study Kang, Seung-Gul Na, Kyoung-Sae Kang, Jae Myeong Yeon, Byeong Kil Lee, Jun-Young Cho, Seong-Jin Psychiatry Investig Original Article OBJECTIVE: The provision of care for elderly people with dementia by healthy elderly caregivers is one of the new health-care paradigms in South Korea. The aim of this study was to determine whether this type of care, which includes cognitive stimulation, would improve the cognitive function of dementia patients and the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregiver. METHODS: Totals of 132 dementia patients and 197 healthy elderly caregivers participated in this study. We evaluated the cognitive function of the dementia patients at baseline and after providing the program for 6 months using the Korean version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease, 1st Edition (CERAD-K). We also evaluated the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregivers using the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Short Version (WHOQOL-BREF) at baseline and after 6 months. RESULTS: The word-list memory results of CERAD-K for the included dementia patients improved after 6 months (Z=-2.855, p=0.004). The WHOQOL-BREF score among the elderly caregiver also improved significantly (Z=-2.354, p=0.019). CONCLUSION: These data suggest that dementia care is associated with improvements in both the cognitive function of dementia patients and the quality of life of the healthy elderly caregivers. Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2017-07 2017-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5561404/ /pubmed/28845173 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2017.14.4.458 Text en Copyright © 2017 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Kang, Seung-Gul Na, Kyoung-Sae Kang, Jae Myeong Yeon, Byeong Kil Lee, Jun-Young Cho, Seong-Jin Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title | Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title_full | Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title_fullStr | Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title_short | Dementia Care by Healthy Elderly Caregivers Is Associated with Improvement of Patients' Memory and the Caregivers' Quality of Life: A Before and After Study |
title_sort | dementia care by healthy elderly caregivers is associated with improvement of patients' memory and the caregivers' quality of life: a before and after study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28845173 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2017.14.4.458 |
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