TY - JOUR
T1 - Reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms of older care recipients by their family members and their foreign home care workers
T2 - Results from triadic data
AU - Ayalon, Liat
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Objectives: To evaluate reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) per family members and round the clock foreign home care workers. Design, setting, and participants: A cross-sectional matched sample of family members, foreign home care workers, and care recipients. Measurements: Family members and foreign home care workers completed a measure of NPS. All 3 stakeholders provided a variety of demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: There was a low agreement between family members and foreign home care workers with regard to reports of depression and disturbing behaviors in care recipient and a good agreement with regard to reports of memory problems. In addition to care recipients characteristics, family members characteristics were primarily correlated with family members reports of NPS and foreign home care workers characteristics were primarily associated with foreign home care workers reports of NPS. Conclusions: Because much of the evaluation of NPS relies on reports of formal (ie, paid) and informal caregivers (ie, unpaid), clinicians should be aware of the fact that these reports are based in large part on the subjective perception of the caregiver.
AB - Objectives: To evaluate reports of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) per family members and round the clock foreign home care workers. Design, setting, and participants: A cross-sectional matched sample of family members, foreign home care workers, and care recipients. Measurements: Family members and foreign home care workers completed a measure of NPS. All 3 stakeholders provided a variety of demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: There was a low agreement between family members and foreign home care workers with regard to reports of depression and disturbing behaviors in care recipient and a good agreement with regard to reports of memory problems. In addition to care recipients characteristics, family members characteristics were primarily correlated with family members reports of NPS and foreign home care workers characteristics were primarily associated with foreign home care workers reports of NPS. Conclusions: Because much of the evaluation of NPS relies on reports of formal (ie, paid) and informal caregivers (ie, unpaid), clinicians should be aware of the fact that these reports are based in large part on the subjective perception of the caregiver.
KW - Caregivers
KW - Globalization
KW - Long-term care
KW - Neuropsychiatric symptoms
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U2 - 10.1177/0891988709355273
DO - 10.1177/0891988709355273
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C2 - 20042545
AN - SCOPUS:77951945758
SN - 0891-9887
VL - 23
SP - 115
EP - 122
JO - Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
JF - Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology
IS - 2
ER -