YOUNGER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA CAUSE, CURE & CARE
Rania Ahmed Hamed Ahmed;
Abstract
Patients with dementia inevitably become incapable of caring for themselves as the disease progresses. The responsibility for their care falls on family members, often the spouse, or on institutions.
Caregiver gratification depends on continuity of closeness of the martial relationship, the meaning of care giving to the carer, the social support network and the patient illness characteristics.
Despite the gratifications, the expenence of a sense of burden is universal amongst carers & the predictors of burden are caregiver factors as well as patient factors.
The family needs the physician's support throughout the course of the illness.
Institutionalization of the person with dementia is often viewed negatively; the caregiver may fell defeated and to have failed and a major financial burden is shifted to society. Identifying the factors which predict institutionalization may identify targets for intervention that could reduce the need for
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Caregiver gratification depends on continuity of closeness of the martial relationship, the meaning of care giving to the carer, the social support network and the patient illness characteristics.
Despite the gratifications, the expenence of a sense of burden is universal amongst carers & the predictors of burden are caregiver factors as well as patient factors.
The family needs the physician's support throughout the course of the illness.
Institutionalization of the person with dementia is often viewed negatively; the caregiver may fell defeated and to have failed and a major financial burden is shifted to society. Identifying the factors which predict institutionalization may identify targets for intervention that could reduce the need for
. • institutional care':
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| Title | YOUNGER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA CAUSE, CURE & CARE | Other Titles | المصابون بالخرف الاصغر سنا الاسباب العلاج والرعاية | Authors | Rania Ahmed Hamed Ahmed | Issue Date | 2000 |
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