Physical Frailty Correlates With Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Caregiver Burden in Alzheimer's Disease.

CONCLUSIONS: The presence of not only physical frailty but also pre-frailty, as determined by the FI, could increase BPSD and caregiver burden in patients with AD. PMID: 30474939 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30474939?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - November 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research