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| Published: December 25, 2015
Challenges of Care giving Alzheimer’s Patients
Research Scholar, University of Mysore, Mysore Google Scholar More about the auther
Prof. of Education, Regional Institute of Education, Manasa Gangotri, Mysore Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.107/20150301
DOI: 10.25215/0301.107
ABSTRACT
The present review paper attempts to present the challenges faced by the caregivers when they assume care giving responsibilities for person/s affected with Alzheimer’s. The experiences in the context of care are not limited with physical and psychological domains alone. Rather care giving for Alzheimer’s involves increased risk of mental, emotional and economic problems as well as due to consequences of care giving that accompanies due to handling such a role. Ultimately the quality of care received by the person with Alzheimer’s and the quality of life of the caregiver becomes imbalance/impaired. Successful execution of the role in care giving brings harmony/balance in life between them in all dimensions of health which is highly essential. Therefore it demands the professionals to help the caregivers to understand about Alzheimer’s disease condition and to handle them based on felt- need to render the best care.
Keywords
Alzheimer’s Disease, Epidemiology, Characteristics, Challenges of Care Giving, Strategies for Caregivers
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I Vijayalakshmi k, V Murthy
Received: October 30, 2015; Revision Received: November 18, 2015; Accepted: December 25, 2015
Article Overview
ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.107/20150301
10.25215/0301.107
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 1, October-December, 2015