Development and Psychometric Properties of the Family Distress in Advanced Dementia Scale

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 775-780

  Givens, Jane L ^a,b   Jones, Richard N ^c   Mazor, Kathleen M ^d   Prigerson, Holly G ^e   Mitchell, Susan L ^a,b  

^a Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiver burden; Dementia; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED DEMENTIA SCALE; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING HOME; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROXY; PSYCHOMETRY; SATISFACTION WITH CARE AT THE END OF LIFE IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FAMILY; MASSACHUSETTS; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BOSTON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84940452157     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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