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Women with high level of education, victims of the care of people with Alzheimer's

The aim of this job is to know the existing relationship between the task of caring patients with Alzheimer's disease, caregivers' gender and their level of academic studies. Descriptive study, 69 persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and their respective familiar caregivers as subjects of the study. Age, gender, academic level, burden, depression, anxiety level, quality of life and social loneliness have been measured in caregivers. Age, gender, dependency level and neuropsychological state have been measured in patients. Data collection was done in 2016. Logistic regression analysis was performed. Caregivers with high levels of academic studies suffer more burden, being women in their majority. They are more likely to present social loneliness and higher levels of anxiety and a worse quality of life than men. The burden may be due to a greater number of responsibilities to respond to, and to the inability to combine it with the role of caregiver. We can conclude that women become victims of caring Alzheimer' patients. 

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Type of Reference
Jour
Type of Work
Journal article
Publisher
Universidad de Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones
ISBN/ISSN
16956141
Publication Year
2020
Issue Number
2
Journal Titles
Enfermeria Global
Volume Number
19
Start Page
406
End Page
420