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The impact on carers of behavioural difficulties in dementia: A pilot study on management

✍ Scribed by Dr. A. C. Hinchliffe; Inge Hyman; Bob Blizard; Gill Livingston

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 381 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.930070807

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✦ Synopsis

Sixteen day centre attenders with dementia and their carers were interviewed. The cognitive and behavioural impairments of subjects with dementia were assessed using the Mini-Mental State and the Stockton Geriatric Behaviour Rating Scale. Carers were assessed using the GHQ(28) as a screen for psychiatric morbidity. Where psychological intervention programmes were successful in reducing behaviour identified by carers as particularly distressing, carer GHQ fell. Future studies are needed.

KEY woms-Dementia, behaviour, carers, GHQ, behavioural modification.

As a result of the ageing population and the Government policy to care for elderly people in the community, the burden of caring for those with dementia now falls increasingly on relatives and friends.

Many studies have investigated the consequences of caring and report high levels of 'stress', 'burden' and psychiatric morbidity (

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