Complaints of caregivers of people with dementia among group living, nursing home residents in comparison to home care

The care of demented people by family care-givers is tied with severe burdens. Changing the providing from home care to nursing home residents or outpatient group living will not entirely reduce these burdens. The study is based on evaluated burdens of 314 nursing persons whose demented relations are cared at home, supported by outpatient care or day care, at geriatric care centers and at outpatient group living. All physically improved troubles of these three kinds of care do not differ considerably, compared to the self-judgements in the list of complaints of Giegener-Beschwerdebogen (The Giessen Subjective Complaints List) as well as further burden lists. Respecting further parameters in concern of psychic adjustment and improved burdens, the factors of serious burdens by home caregivers exceed considerably the nursing home residents and outpatient group living. However, in both providing forms, familiar caregivers come up to the level of burden of home care in some factors. Thus, some problems will continue to persist with respect to the burden symptoms when changing from home care to nursing home care or to a quasi inpatient care.