Progress on family caregiver′s burden of the elderly patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

It introduced the definition of the caregiver and at home and abroad,and also reviewed influencing factors of family caregiver′s burden of the elderly patients. At last, it put forward the essentiality to perfect the nursing intervention and improve caregivers' coping capacity, as well as the transitional care model and the linkage"hospital-community-family",and improve national legislation and policy support in order to structure the social support system at the same time, so as to provide reference for study of reducing the family caregiver′s burden of the elderly patients.