Burden level associated with practices of alzheimer patients' family caregiver

ABSTRACT

Behind every Alzheimer Patient there is hidden victim called Family Caregiver. [1] Assess practices of family caregiver to wardAlzheimer Patient.; and [2] Assess burden level of family caregiver regarding care provided to Alzheimer Patient. descriptive. The study was conducted at The Out- Patient Memory Clinic in Ain-Shams Psychiatric Mental Health Centre and The Out -Patient. Memory Clinic in Abbassia Mental Health Hospital A purposive sample of 165 Alzheimer Patient accompanied by 165 Family caregiver Tool Three tools were used for data collection ;the first tool was Socio-demographic data sheet for Alzheimer Patient. ,include age, sex ,marital status, educational level, current occupation duration of the disease;[b].Socio-demographic data sheet for family caregiver include age, sex ,marital status, educational level, current occupation., Kinrelationship family size ,income and sources of treatment Expanses; [c].Knowledge of family caregiver regarding the Alzheimer disease such as definition, age of occurrence, classification of the disease, warning sing and symptoms and categorization of the disease in Egypt and [d].Caregiven activities checklist and e. Caregiver Burden Scale The study concluded that[l] 49.1%Family caregiver knowledge about the disease had satisfactory ;40.7% of Family caregiver's with satisfactory level of knowledge provided acceptable care ;[2]. 50.0% family caregiver with mild burden experiences provided care to Alzheimer Patient with insignificant level. The level of care provided to Alzheimer patient was insignificantly affected by family caregiver knowledge level. Also, burden level of the Family caregiver hadn't affected the care provided. Hence, it was train health care personal to provided consulling to Family Caregiver about coping with burden resulting from care; design hot line to exchange caregiver's experiences about care of Alzheimer Patient; study different aspect of Alzheimer disease care