Do family caregivers perceive more difficulty when they look after patients with early onset dementia compared to those with late onset dementia?

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1255-1261

  Arai, Asuna ^a   Matsumoto, Teruhisa ^b   Ikeda, Manabu ^b,c   Arai, Yumiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Care services; Early onset dementia; Family caregivers; Late onset dementia; Presenile dementia; Senile dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 37349099739     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1935     Document Type: Article

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