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P2‐368: How do caregiver's features influence the sense of burden?
Author(s) -
Silvestre Ana,
Guarda Cláudia
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.1243
Subject(s) - spouse , caregiver burden , family caregivers , depression (economics) , dementia , gerontology , psychology , medicine , disease , clinical psychology , pathology , sociology , anthropology , economics , macroeconomics
caregiving (mean d 1⁄4 4.16). Caregivers who received the intervention (mean d 1⁄4 .82) and those in attention control reported a decrease in depression (mean d 1⁄4 -1.24). Conclusions: Technology-based intervention programs hold promise for improving outcomes for AD caregivers. There is a need to: evaluate the efficacy of these types of interventions with larger more diverse samples of caregiver; rigorously evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these types of interventions; and the degree that they can be translated into community settings.