Spouse caregivers of Alzheimer patients: problem responses to caregiver burden

Aging & Mental Health
S H CroogR M Baume

Abstract

This paper reports on comparisons of patterns of responses by 199 spouses of Alzheimer disease patients to stresses of functioning as caregivers. Focusing on gender and age of spouses, we examine effects of the total burden of caregiving and perceived patient problems on a set of emotional and social responses of caregivers. We also examine ways in which depressive symptoms and anxiety of spouse caregivers were associated with patterns of their responses to caregiving stresses. Total patient problem burden was most strongly associated positively with caregiver anger-resentment toward the patient, followed by caregiver concerns about personal time restriction and limitation of social life. Among individual areas of patient problems, emotional lability of the patient rather than cognitive impairment appeared strongest by far in affecting caregiver response measures. Negative impact of caregiving on their social life and associations appeared to have particularly marked effects on effects on caregiver depressive symptoms and anxiety scores. Spouse caregivers did not differ by age in clinically significant ways in their patterns of reaction to stresses of caregiving. The study suggests the importance of considering potential spouse...Continue Reading

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