Caregiving Challenges for Caregivers of Older Adults People With Alzheimer's Disease: A Narrative Review.

Zabolypour, Soheila; Arsalani, Narges; Gilvari, Tahereh; Vardanjani, Leila Rafiee; Khajehmirzaei, Faezeh; Fallahi-Khoshknab, Masoud

Objectives: Alzheimer disease is a progressive chronic disease that causes complete dependence of the patient and the need for round-the-clock care and creates challenges for caregivers and families that need to be investigated and recognized. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the care challenges of caregivers of older people with Alzheimer disease in 2022. Methods & Materials: A narrative review study was conducted using the Persian keywords "caregiver and Alzheimer disease" and English keywords "Alzheimer disease, caregiver and carer" in PubMed, Embase, ProQuest, SID, and IranDoc from 2017 to 2022. Out of 4594 articles, 27 were evaluated and analyzed using the Gifford quality assessment criteria. Results: Following a review of the articles, it was determined that the most common caregiving issues faced by older Alzheimer patients were divided into two categories: 1) Individual challenges, which included psychological subcategories, lack of information, physical and occupational, and workload and 2) Family challenges, which included subcategories economic, marital, social relationship disruption and lack of emotional relationships obtained. Conclusion: Caring for older people with Alzheimer causes many care challenges for their caregivers. Therefore, in addition to treating and caring for older people with Alzheimer, it is necessary to pay attention to the challenges of the caregivers and plan to empower and solve their challenges in the health and treatment systems.

ALZHEIMER'S disease; CAREGIVERS; OLDER people; DISEASE progression; OLDER patients

Salmand: Iranian Journal of Ageing, 2025, Vol 19, Issue 4, p506

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Academic Journal

10.32598/sija.2023.3598.1