The Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement in Dementia Care: Physical and Cognitive Decline, Severe Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Increased Caregiving Burden

Borges-Machado, Flávia; Barros, Duarte; Ribeiro, Óscar; Carvalho, Joana

doi:10.1177/1533317520976720

The Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement in Dementia Care: Physical and Cognitive Decline, Severe Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Increased Caregiving Burden

Purpose: This study aims to analyze home confinement impact on individuals with neurocognitive disorders (NCD) through informal caregiver’s perspective and examine how it has affected caregiving burden. Methods: Thirty-six caregivers (64.94 ± 13.54 years, 41.7% female) of individuals with NCD (74…