Appraising the need for care in alzheimer's disease

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schiffczyk, Claudia ^a   Romero, Barbara ^b,c   Jonas, Christina ^a   Lahmeyer, Constanze ^a   Müller, Friedemann ^b   Riepe, Matthias W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Alzheimer Therapiezentrum Bad Aibling   (Germany)

^c Freelance   (Germany)

Author keywords

Care level; Caregiver; Dementia; Nursing care insurance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOURAL PATHOLOGY IN THE ALZHEIMER DISEASE RATING SCALE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NURSING CARE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE; RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN DEMENTIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84874407464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-73     Document Type: Article

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