Alzheimer’s Caregivers Behavior
Many Alzheimer’s Caregivers Admit to Abusive Behavior
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) — More than half of family members looking after people with dementia admit they have behaved abusively toward their relative, a new British study finds.
Actual physical abuse was rare, being reported by only three of the 220 caretakers in the study. But the researchers, who published their findings in the Jan. 23 online issue of BMJ, say that 115 (52.3 percent) of those surveyed acknowledged some abusive behavior toward the relative under care, with “significant” abusive behavior described by 74 (33.6 percent) of caregivers.
The results indicate “the extreme difficulty of caring for persons with dementia,” said study author Dr. Claudia Cooper, a psychiatrist and research training fellow in health sciences research with the Medical Research Council, the British equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The most common form of abuse (26 percent) was screaming or yelling at the person with dementia. Insults or swearing accounted for 18 percent of reports, with threats of sending the person to a nursing home happening in 4.4 percent of cases. [...]
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