Emotions and Caregiver’s Needs in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease: The Caregiver Burden

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 patient’s domiciliary “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 life’s quality 1. The aim of our study was to investigate caregiver’s burden “predicting factors” and evaluates to improve the quality of their caregivers.