The impact of dementia severity on caregiver burden in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease.

This study is the first to show that caregivers of SemDem, PNFA, and AD patients show similar burden, while confirming that bvFTD caregivers show higher burden than AD caregivers. More importantly, this study demonstrates that burden worsens with disease progression in FTD. PMID: 22314247 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/22314247?dopt=Abstract

Source: Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders - March 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord Source Type: research