Caregiver burden for impaired elderly Japanese with prevalent stroke and dementia under long-term care insurance system

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 234-240

  Muraki, Isao ^a,b   Yamagishi, Kazumasa ^a   Ito, Yoshinobu ^c   Fujieda, Takashi ^d   Ishikawa, Yoshinori ^e,f   Miyagawa, Yukiaki ^g   Okada, Katsutoshi ^h   Sato, Shinichi ^f   Kitamura, Akihiko ^f   Shimamoto, Takashi ^f   Tanigawa, Takeshi ^a   Iso, Hiroyasu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Akita Chuo Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d Ibaraki Prefectural Mito Public Health Center   (Japan)

^e Chuo Higashi Public Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

^f OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^g Nagano Prefectural Saku Public Health Center   (Japan)

^h EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caregivers; Dementia; Long term care insurance; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STROKE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMENTIA; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LONG-TERM CARE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 41349114213     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113861     Document Type: Article

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