Measuring the caregiver burden of caring for community-residing people with Alzheimer's disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Yu, Hongmei ^a   Wang, Xiaocheng ^b   He, Runlian ^c   Liang, Ruifeng ^a   Zhou, Liye ^a  

^a SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI PROVINCIAL PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Department of Nursing Taiyuan Central Hospital ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVERS BURDEN INVENTORY; CHINA; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; CHINA; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84941342359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132168     Document Type: Article

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