A Study on the Structural Relationship between the Caring Burden, Social Support, Depression, and Quality of Life of the Care Providers of the Elderly with Dementia

Key Points

• To analyze how caring burden, social support, and depression affect the quality of life of caregivers for elderly individuals with dementia.
• Integrated analysis of structural relationships between caring burden, social support, depression, and quality of life.
• Surveyed primary caregivers of elderly dementia patients for comprehensive data assessment.
• Caring burden negatively impacts social support and quality of life, while positively influencing depression.
• Social support negatively influences depression and positively affects quality of life.
• Depression negatively impacts quality of life, with significant mediating effects from both social support and depression.

Abstract