Caring burden and associated factors of care providers for senile dementia patients in an urban-rural fringe of Fuzhou City, China

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 707-713

  Li, Hong ^a   Zhang, Honghui ^a   Huang, He ^a   Wang, Yinzhou ^a   Huang, Hualing ^b  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Burden; Care provider; Caregiver; Dementia; Older adults

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CARE PROVIDER BURDEN INVENTORY; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SENILE DEMENTIA; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; CHINA; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84876946802     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3275/8721     Document Type: Article

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