Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the old population, carrying a major negative influence upon society and caregivers, as its socio-economic implications are enormous. The devastating impact of AD is also due to the fact that the diagnosis is difficult to be established...
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| author | Cristian Dinu Popescu Dan Trofin Daniela Trofin Daniel Alexa Romeo Dobrin Bogdan Ignat Ioan Buraga Daniela Matei |
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| description | Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the old population, carrying a major negative influence upon society and caregivers, as its socio-economic implications are enormous. The devastating impact of AD is also due to the fact that the diagnosis is difficult to be established in an early stage, and in spite of the advances made in medicine, the new symptomatic and disease modifying therapies have still only a mild though promising positive effect. Caregivers are exposed to increased risk of disease themselves, due to the high burden which predisposes them to stress related psychological, behavioral or cognitive disorders. Greater caregiver resilience can predict lower levels of depression. Also, a strong external support system was associated with increased resilience. Establishing a pattern for the behavioral and psychological manifestations in dementia can have as direct effect developing better coping strategies in order to reduce stress and the burden of the caregivers. Some data regarding the economic and social impact of AD, as well as facts and numbers from our local centers will be described in the following pages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d233c73a2d5d460893a3875b3017bdd02022-12-22T03:49:20ZengAmaltea Medical Publishing HouseRomanian Journal of Neurology1843-81482069-60942014-12-0113417818510.37897/RJN.2014.4.2Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer'sCristian Dinu Popescu0Dan Trofin1Daniela Trofin2Daniel Alexa3Romeo Dobrin4Bogdan Ignat5Ioan Buraga6Daniela Matei7Department of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Bioengineering, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, RomaniaAlzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the old population, carrying a major negative influence upon society and caregivers, as its socio-economic implications are enormous. The devastating impact of AD is also due to the fact that the diagnosis is difficult to be established in an early stage, and in spite of the advances made in medicine, the new symptomatic and disease modifying therapies have still only a mild though promising positive effect. Caregivers are exposed to increased risk of disease themselves, due to the high burden which predisposes them to stress related psychological, behavioral or cognitive disorders. Greater caregiver resilience can predict lower levels of depression. Also, a strong external support system was associated with increased resilience. Establishing a pattern for the behavioral and psychological manifestations in dementia can have as direct effect developing better coping strategies in order to reduce stress and the burden of the caregivers. Some data regarding the economic and social impact of AD, as well as facts and numbers from our local centers will be described in the following pages.https://rjn.com.ro/articles/2014.4/RJN_2014_4_Art-02.pdfdementiaalzheimer’s diseasesocialeconomicscaregiverburden |
| spellingShingle | Cristian Dinu Popescu Dan Trofin Daniela Trofin Daniel Alexa Romeo Dobrin Bogdan Ignat Ioan Buraga Daniela Matei Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's Romanian Journal of Neurology dementia alzheimer’s disease social economics caregiver burden |
| title | Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's |
| title_full | Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's |
| title_fullStr | Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's |
| title_short | Socio-economic issues in Alzheimer's disease. Resilience and Alzheimer's |
| title_sort | socio economic issues in alzheimer s disease resilience and alzheimer s |
| topic | dementia alzheimer’s disease social economics caregiver burden |
| url | https://rjn.com.ro/articles/2014.4/RJN_2014_4_Art-02.pdf |
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