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Enfermería Global

On-line version ISSN 1695-6141

Abstract

LUQUE-CARRILLO, Patricia et al. Women with high level of education, victims of the care of people with Alzheimer's. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.58, pp.390-420.  Epub May 18, 2020. ISSN 1695-6141.  https://dx.doi.org/eglobal.392231.

The aim of this job is to know the existing relationship between the task of caring patients with Alzheimer's disease, caregivers' gender and their level of academic studies. Descriptive study, 69 persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and their respective familiar caregivers as subjects of the study. Age, gender, academic level, burden, depression, anxiety level, quality of life and social loneliness have been measured in caregivers. Age, gender, dependency level and neuropsychological state have been measured in patients. Data collection was done in 2016. Logistic regression analysis was performed. Caregivers with high levels of academic studies suffer more burden, being women in their majority. They are more likely to present social loneliness and higher levels of anxiety and a worse quality of life than men. The burden may be due to a greater number of responsibilities to respond to, and to the inability to combine it with the role of caregiver. We can conclude that women become victims of caring Alzheimer' patients.

Keywords : Alzheimer's disease; Academic studies; Burden; Family caregivers; Gender.

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