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KMID : 0379220180380041127
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2018 Volume.38 No. 4 p.1127 ~ p.1148
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The Effects of Symptoms of the Dementia Elderlyon the Primary Caregivers’ Care-Stress: The Expert Support and the Family Support as a Moderator
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Kim Jae-Yop
Kwak Ju-Yeon
Choi Yoon-Hee
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Abstract
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Care-stress among the dementia caregivers has been an important issue. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the dementia elderly’s symptoms on the primary caregivers’care ?stress. In addition, the moderators, the expert support and the family support, were used to examine the moderating effects between the symptoms and the care-stress. The data was obtained at 10 day-care facilities and services in Seoul, Gyeonggi and Busan province in South Korea. A total of 191 participants were analyzed. They were the spouses or the adult children of the dementia elderly who were diagnosed with dementia within five years. This study was conducted in multiple regression analysis. The main findings are as follows. First of all, the symptoms that the dementia elderly show were significantly associated with the primary caregivers’ care-stress. Also, the interactive variable with the expert support was statistically significant. However, it was not significant with the family support. This means that only the expert support from doctors, nurses or social workers decreased the caregivers’ care-stress. The implications of this study are 1) the necessities of the education that covers the specific symptoms of the dementia patients’, 2) the extension of the supportive policies for caregivers’ care-stress, 3) the necessities of more allocation of the dementia specialists in the practical settings and cooperative systems among the dementia specialists in various fields, and 4) the enhancement of the family function among families who have a dementia elderly as a family member.
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KEYWORD
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Dementia patient, Caregivers, Symptoms of dementia elderly, Care-stress, Expert support, Family support
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