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Psychological Health of Dementia Caregivers: An Overview

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Background: Worldwide, dementia is one of the foremost health challenging factors among elderly. Behavioural and psychological symptom of dementia (BPSD) has been found to be related with cognitive impairment, and it deteriorates with the progression of the disease. A majority of the persons with dementia depend partially or totally on their families for daily activities and care. Moreover, providing care for a family member with dementia has been found to be associated with caregiver’s increased level of burden and poor psychological health. Purpose of the review: This article offers a rationalized review of the dementia caregiver’s psychological health based on care demands, demographic factors and effects of different behavioural problems of the care recipients. It also offers an overview of dementia and its symptoms. Methods: Literature search was carried out using PubMed, Research Gate and Google Scholar which were published between 1990 and 2019. Key words that were mainly used for searching relevant literatures are as follows—dementia, dementia caregiver, carer, caregiving, psychological health (i.e. stress, depression, anxiety, burden and distress), demographic factors and so on. Findings: Some common disruptive behaviours such as wandering, delusion, hallucination, apathy and motor disturbances are observed in a person with dementia. Prolong exposure to these types of disrupting behaviour affects caregivers’ psychological health enormously. The other responsible factors for caregivers’ deteriorating health conditions are number of care hours/day and years, type of help provided towards care recipient’s daily activities and so on. Additionally, studies found that sociodemographic factors, less family support, lack of social activities and social interactions are some common causes of adverse psychological health conditions among family caregivers. Summary: Due to dearth of proper institutional dementia care services, family caregivers have to play the main supporting role to look after their demented family members. In order to carry out several such responsibilities, they develop many adverse health conditions, specially the deteriorating mental health condition. Literature reviews suggest that coping strategies may help to reduce the adverse psychological health condition among dementia caregivers.

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