Abstract

Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease: The burden on the caregiver patients with Alzheimer Disease need assistance and supervision in their daily activities. In literature, the term “burden” has been used to indicate the overload of work experienced by the caregiver. In our country, the patients domiciliar “take-care system” is based firstly on the family support together with the supply of health care providers and home care professionals provided by the National Health System. Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients are usually subjected to enormous physical and mental stress, as well as emotional, which may have repercussions on personal, familiar and social contest and, consequently, on quality of life [1]. The aim of our study was to investigate if behavioral and psychological symptoms could be considered as caregivers burden “predicting factors”. The objective of our study was to investigate and describe the behavioural disorders perceived by caregivers in patients with AD and evaluats to improve the quality of their caregivers.

Keywords:Alzheimer’s disease, Neuropsychiatic disorders, Caregiver distress