Association of dementia comorbidities with caregivers' physical, psychological, social, and financial burden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informal caregivers of older adults with dementia may experience substantial burdens during their caregiving process, especially when caring for older adults with other comorbid conditions. This study evaluated whether and how comorbidity burden for persons with dementia (PWD) was associated with caregivers' physical, psychological, social, and financial burden as well as caregiving gain.

Methods

Data were from 1,065 community-dwelling older adults living with dementia and their primary caregivers in the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving. PWD's comorbidity burden was measured by the count of chronic conditions and the pattern of comorbidity identified by the latent class analysis (LCA). We considered four domains of caregi

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9890694 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature