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In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study
INTRODUCTION: Caregivers who live with a person with dementia who receives care, compared with those who live elsewhere, are often considered to experience greater levels of psychological and affective burden. The evidence for this is, however, only limited to studies employing small sample sizes an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33554655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1881758 |
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author | Brini, S. Hodkinson, A. Davies, A. Hirani, S. Gathercole, R. Howard, R. Newman, S. P. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Caregivers who live with a person with dementia who receives care, compared with those who live elsewhere, are often considered to experience greater levels of psychological and affective burden. The evidence for this is, however, only limited to studies employing small sample sizes and that failed to examine caregivers’ psychological wellbeing. We address these issues in a large cohort of dementia caregivers. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study comparing caregivers living with a dementia care recipient (n = 240) to caregivers living elsewhere (n = 255) on caregivers’ burden, anxiety, and depression. RESULTS: We found that caregivers living with the care recipient relative to those living elsewhere showed significantly greater burden and depression, but we found no group difference in anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: Our study adds to the evidence by showing that cohabiting with a care recipient with dementia is associated with greater burden and poorer psychological wellbeing. Strategies aiming to improve caregivers’ burden and psychological wellbeing should take account of caregivers’ living arrangements. |
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spelling | pubmed-89593872022-03-29 In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study Brini, S. Hodkinson, A. Davies, A. Hirani, S. Gathercole, R. Howard, R. Newman, S. P. Aging Ment Health Dementia Care INTRODUCTION: Caregivers who live with a person with dementia who receives care, compared with those who live elsewhere, are often considered to experience greater levels of psychological and affective burden. The evidence for this is, however, only limited to studies employing small sample sizes and that failed to examine caregivers’ psychological wellbeing. We address these issues in a large cohort of dementia caregivers. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study comparing caregivers living with a dementia care recipient (n = 240) to caregivers living elsewhere (n = 255) on caregivers’ burden, anxiety, and depression. RESULTS: We found that caregivers living with the care recipient relative to those living elsewhere showed significantly greater burden and depression, but we found no group difference in anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: Our study adds to the evidence by showing that cohabiting with a care recipient with dementia is associated with greater burden and poorer psychological wellbeing. Strategies aiming to improve caregivers’ burden and psychological wellbeing should take account of caregivers’ living arrangements. Routledge 2021-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8959387/ /pubmed/33554655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1881758 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Dementia Care Brini, S. Hodkinson, A. Davies, A. Hirani, S. Gathercole, R. Howard, R. Newman, S. P. In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title | In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | In-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | in-home dementia caregiving is associated with greater psychological burden and poorer mental health than out-of-home caregiving: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Dementia Care |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33554655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1881758 |
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