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Objective: To investigate the relationships among caregiving and the socioeconomic, health and well-being conditions at aging. Older caregivers were compared with older noncaregivers regarding socioeconomics status (age, sex, income familiar), health status (comorbidities, fatigu...

Background The number of older caregivers is getting bigger and it is important to know if they experience depressive symptoms because there can be consequences for both caregiver and care recipient. Objective To analyze the recent publications related to the assessment of depre...

This study describes the assessment of dyspnea, symptom distress, and quality of life measures in 163 hospice patients with cancer who reported dyspnea. Mean age of the hospice patient sample was 70.22 years and 61.86 for caregivers (65% were spouses). The majority of patients an...

Abstract Introduction Laryngeal cancer is the second most common head and neck cancer, but no study to date reports exclusively on the well-being of the caregivers of patients with laryngeal cancer treated by radiotherapy. Objective The present prospective pilot study aims to...

Introduction: This work arises from the need for recognition of the care process in Long-Term Care Institution (LTCI) seeking improvements to the standard of care support network for institutionalized elderly. Purpose: To analyze the process of care in a LTCI, aiming to (co)struc...

Introduction: This work arises from the need for recognition of the care process in Long-Term Care Institution (LTCI) seeking improvements to the standard of care support network for institutionalized elderly. Purpose: To analyze the process of care in a LTCI, aiming to (co)struc...

Objective Collaboration between youths with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their adult caregivers may be central to effective management of T1D. This article includes analysis of cross-sectional associations between T1D outcomes (adherence, glycemic control, quality of life, family co...

Abstract Background Successful treatment of HIV-positive children requires a high level of adherence (at least 95%) to highly active antiretroviral therapy. Adherence is influenced by factors related to the child and caregivers. Objectives To evaluate children and caregivers ch...

The aim of this qualitative study is to know meanings of oral health to children s caregivers and their articulation with the interests in oral health educative practices; it focuses on the communicational interaction between health professionals and caregivers. Semi-structured i...

This study objectified to analyze an educational process with family caregivers of patients presenting swallowing problems due to Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) in order to minimize bronchoaspiration risks. Descriptive research with a qualitative approach was held with caregive...

The prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases, together with health care for the elderly and support for family caregivers, represents new challenges for our health system. Providing care for caregivers is also a responsibility of health professionals. The objectives of the...

Objetive: This study has as objective to characterize primary caregivers of elderly people in the community with some degree of dependence and identify which are the factors of higher impact in their life. Methods: It had been interviewed 127 caregivers about socio-demographic ch...

Considering the chronic disease a dysfunction that generates weak sequels, the present study has had a proposition to evaluate the anxiety and depression profile of the caregivers bearers of special needs assisted in the School of Physiotherapy of the University of Rio Verde. For...

Population aging represents one of the major advancements of humanity but it is also a great challenge to health managers. Decreased physical and cognitive abilities are associated to the aging process and lead to elderly individualsprogressive loss of autonomy and independence. ...

Family caregivers of older adults experience high levels of chronic stress and psychological distress, which are known to impair cognition. Very little research, however, has assessed the impact of caregiving on key cognitive outcomes such as learning and memory. This study compa...

Abstract Background: Bullying is a complex social phenomenon, which is common in peer relationships and is influenced by different individual and contextual characteristics. Despite broad knowledge on the importance of the family for children's development, many studies about bu...

Abstract Introduction Compared to other types of caregiver, spouse-caregivers tend to be closer to people with Alzheimer’s disease (PwAD) because of their different position in the relationship. We designed this study to compare the differences in caregivers’ quality of life (Q...

This study utilizes a stress and coping framework which includes cognitive appraisal, personal and environmental resources, coping and stress to examine factors related to African-American caregivers’ breast cancer screenings, including mammograms, clinical examinations and self-...

It is unknown whether caregivers who perform more caregiving tasks have a greater decline in health from higher stress or less decline because of better health, staying active, or psychological factors. This 1999−2004 US study examined caregiving intensity and 2-year change in pe...

Caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have high levels of stress, poor health status, depressed mood, feeling of distress, among other symptoms of physiological and psychological conditions, consequently of burden. The impact of TB is not limited to patients, this psy...

The elderly population was “immune “to HIV/AIDS. However, With the emergence of drugs that return to the old man his sexual potency, Coupled with the concept of active aging, it was noted that sexual behavior had changed and with it the HIV/AIDS arrived in the elderly. Another as...