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Quality of Life and Social Support Family Members caring for Elderly with Alzheimers Disease.

Autoři: Macková Marie

Rok: 2013

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Quality of Life and Social Support Family Members caring for Elderly with Alzheimers Disease.	Introduction: Care about people with Alzheimer´s disease in family is very challenging. The care has an impact on quality of life of family members. Aims: The research aimed to identify what are the current levels of quality of life of family members and what factors affect to this quality of life. Methods: Ten women and eight men caring about elderly with Alzheimer´s disease were interviewed individually using a semistructured interview quide. The interviews were tape-recorded for subsequent verbatim transcription. The data were analyzed by the author using a qualitative content analysis without any predermined categories. Both a manifest focus and a latent focus were used. Quality of life was measured using WHOQOL. Results: We found lower quality of life for family caregivers in comparison with the Czech population. The analysis revealed two manifest (descriptive) categories:social support and support from the state. The latent (interpretative) focus was on society valuation. Society valuations are low. Conclusion: This research is a contribution to a description of life situation and position of people taking care for elderly with Alzheimer´s disease in family.	Quality; Life; and; Social; Support; Family; Members; caring; for; Elderly; with; Alzheimers; Disease.