It suggests that males had better QOL in comparison to females in these domains. On WHOQOL-BREF domains females having mean score slightly lower compared to males on “perceived QOL” and “physical” domain. Thus, in near future trained professionals will be required for caregiving. It is still prevailing in rural areas but, this scenario is gradually changing now in urban areas where both are working. This may be because India, a male dominated society where females are entrusted to do home related affairs and males are responsible to do work outside of the home. Significantly more females were found to burdened due to “expectation” of caregiving. Females are emotional and empathetic in comparison to males, and thus are more prone to caregiver's stress leading to depression. This could be due to the pressure of their responsibility toward other members of the family, while caring for the patient. Females reported more burden in areas of expectation, management, dependence, and in overall burden. This may be due to lack of time to maintain a social relationship after work and caring dementia patient. Males reported more burden in social relationship, incompetence and dependence. This result is similar as reported by Dementia India Report and study of Burns. Mild to moderate range of burden, suggests that caring for dementia impose great stress on the key caregiver, which, increase with progression of cognitive and behavioral symptoms, and the duration of caring for the loved one, and it can lead to depression and other illnesses. The findings are in consonance with the Indian and Western country studies where physical and psychological health was found to be affected of caregivers. This burden, affect their physical, psychological, social relationship, and environmental QOL. The key caregivers experienced burden in areas such as expectation, privacy, management, embarrassment, anger, personal and social relationships, fear, dependence, finance, incompetence, uncertainty, and avoidance. The study was conducted to assess caregiver burden and QOL of dementia key caregivers. It was hypothesized that there will be no burden on dementia caregivers. In this study, we have focused to explore the caregiver burden and QOL of dementia key caregivers. Studies on caregivers in India suggest that caregiving is associated with more psychological complaints and a poor physical and psychological QOL. About one-third of family caregivers of Alzheimer dementia reported depressive symptoms.Ĭaregiver distress and burden indicate prolonged consequences of poor physical and emotional health. Thus, they become more prone to develop a psychiatric disorder. Many times key caregiver experiences a lot of strain and burden resulting from this rigorous activity of caregiving, which has a negative impact on their physical, psychological, and social Quality of Life (QOL). In the course of this constant caregiving, key caregiver makes lots of sacrifices. Patient of dementia becomes more and more dependent on their caregivers for their ADL as the disease progresses. Hence, the burden on key caregivers of dementia and health care professionals is also increasing.ĭementia affects patient's personal, social, and occupational life along with significant impairment in their activities of daily living (ADL). A rough estimate at average 3% prevalence revealed that at present about 3.7 million elderly are suffering from dementia (2.1 million women and 1.5 million men), in India. In Indian context prevalence of dementia varied from 1.4% to 4.4%. Around 25 million people worldwide have dementia, and the number of people with dementia is predicted to exceed 80 million by 2040. Dementia is the most devastating mental health problem of elderly.
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