Frontotemporal Dementia: The Impact of Patient Behavioral Symptoms on the Physical and Mental Health of Family Caregivers
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BACKGROUND: Providing informal support to someone with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) could be very stressful. Clarifying the relationship between patient behavioral problems and caregiver health could spur future research on effective symptom management strategies. METHODS: Sixty-one FTD family caregivers participated in a postal survey. RESULTS: Patient symptom severity was negatively associated with caregiver mental health (r = -0.26, p < 0.05) but not significantly associated with caregiver physical health. In a regression analysis, caregiver emotional distress from patient behaviors made a statistically significant contribution to caregiver mental health, explaining approximately 10% of its variance. CONCLUSION: This study underscores the importance of focusing on FTD caregivers' perceived emotional distress from patient behavioral problems and ensuring they are getting the appropriate support they need.
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People with frontotemporal dementia are more likely to experience frequent and serious BPSD.
“People with frontotemporal dementia are more likely to experience frequent and serious BPSD, e.g., agitation, disinhibition, apathy and eating abnormalities [125,126,127,128].”
From Relationship of Psychological Flexibility and Mindfulness to Caregiver Burden, and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Caregivers of People with Dementia (2023) · cites this paper as [128]
The Results report frequent apathy (84%), eating problems (75%), and disinhibition (64%) in patients with FTD, and the Introduction describes severe behavioral disturbances in behavioral-variant FTD. The Discussion reports that apathy occurred more often in FTD than in Alzheimer’s disease, but the paper does not establish that FTD patients are more likely to have frequent and serious BPSD as a whole, including agitation. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Wong, C. C., & Wallhagen, M. I.
- Affiliations
- Dominican University of California (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wong, Cindy C.
- Venue
- Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2012-11-17
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 516-528
- ISSN
- 1664-5464 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3522453
- OpenAlex
- W2025393840
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- University of California, San Francisco
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Nursing care and research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Keywords
- frontotemporal dementia, family caregivers, caregiver mental health, caregiver physical health, behavioral symptoms, emotional distress, caregiver burden, informal care, symptom management
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