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Ng, L. L.

Combining a variable‐centered and a person-centered analytical approach to caregiving burden – a holistic approach

Background: Informal caregivers of persons with dementia often experience elevated levels of caregiving burden. However, existing studies tend to use a variable-centered approach to explore it. This study aims to understand the caregiving burden of informal caregivers of persons with dementia in Singapore through a combination of variable-centered and person-centered analytical approaches, and explore the correlates of identified factors and latent classes of caregiving burden.

Wed, 08/24/2022 - 11:38

Decision-Making in Dementia Care: a Qualitative Study of Chinese Family Caregivers in Singapore

Extract: Besides their feeling of helplessness and uncertainty in making treatment decisions on behalf of PWD, family caregivers tended to rely on medical practitioners to make difficult EOL care decisions. 

Tue, 08/11/2020 - 12:37