The burden of distress in caregivers of elderly demented patients and its relationship with coping strategies.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that taking care of elderly, demented patients carries a high cost to caregivers' health, and is associated with negative consequences for physical and mental health. The aim of this study is to investigate which socio-demographic and clinical variables are significantly associated with higher levels of distress in caregivers, and the relationship between caregivers' levels of distress and the coping strategies they adopt.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Neurol. Sci.

Title: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology

Publisher: Springer Nature America, Inc

ISSN: 1590-1874

ISSN (Print): 1590-1874

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 2008

Volume: 29

Issue: 6

Affiliations

[1 ] Clinical and Health Psychology Unit Department of Clinical Neurosciences, San Raffaele-Turro Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Article

DOI: 10.1007/s10072-008-1047-6

PubMed ID: 19083150

SO-VID: fa279730-0eef-4d5f-87a7-7b4921ec39a2

History

Data availability:

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 16

See all cited by