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Dementia Care-Receiver Needs and their Impact on Caregivers

Rush University College of Nursing

Eleanora Keane-Hagerty

Rush University College of Nursing

Lydia Tatarowicz

Rush University College of Nursing

Elaine Scorza

Rush University College of Nursing

This study examines home-based persons with dementia, their needs associated with activities of daily living (ADL), cognitive impairment, and disruptive behaviors, and the relationship of these needs to caregiver distress and burden. Findings suggest that selected disruptive behaviors were most distressing to caregivers, and that when disruptive behaviors occurred more frequently, caregivers were significantly more distressed with these behaviors and reported higher levels of burden. The frequency of cognitive impairment behaviors and level of ADL impairment were not significantly related to caregiver burden, but caregiver distress with these needs was significantly related to caregiver burden.

Clinical Nursing Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, 86-97 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/105477389300200108


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