Determinants of Frailty Among of Informal Caregivers of Demented Patient

Sex: All

Ages: 65 Years – N/A

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Enrollment: 120

Sponsor: Gérond'if

Summary

Frailty, a transitional state between successful and pathological aging, may be benefit from early multi-interventional intervention. Fried's criteria are the more commonly used criteria to diagnose frailty. The caregivers' burden increases caregivers' morbidity .The main objective of the study was to assess the relationship between frailty among informal caregivers of demented patients and the caregiver's burden (Zarit scale). The Secondary objective was to assess determinants of frailty among caregivers.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * caregivers of demented patients , * over \> 65 years old, * who accept exhaustive evalutaion in day care hospital, who agree for ther data to be recorded (anonymously) for an observational study Exclusion Criteria: * No affliation to French social insurance system * People under tutorship

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