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Health Related Quality of Life of Family Caregivers of Dependent Elderly

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Family medicine.

Abstract

The world has witnessed unprecedented decrease in mortality rates over the past century, which led to dramatic increase in the global population. As a result of the dramatic decrease in the worldwide fertility rates and the progressive increase in the life span, the world witnesses a sustained change in the age distribution of the global population in a phenomenon called population aging. Elderly population is expected to double reaching 2.1 billion by 2050. Elderly are more susceptible to have NCDs which are a major determinant for functional disability. Disabled elderly are those who can't perform one or more of basic ADLs with their own. There is a universal recent trend wherein patients are discharged earlier from hospitals. This creates a great worldwide increasing need for family caregiver. Family caregivers face many challenges and reported higher burden and lower HRQoL scores than their non-caregiver counterparts. Many strategies should be implemented to alleviate stress and improve HRQoL of family caregivers.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2023.234839.1411

Keywords

Elderly, family caregivers, Health related quality of life

Authors

First Name

Esraa

Last Name

Aly

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Affiliation

Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University Sohag, Egypt

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docesra2aly@gmail.com

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First Name

Fouad

Last Name

Yousef

MiddleName

M.A.

Affiliation

Public health and community medicine

Email

fouad3s@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

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First Name

Rasha

Last Name

Abd elhameed

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Affiliation

public health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

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rashaali8155@gmail.com

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Volume

28

Article Issue

1.

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43543

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2023-09-07

Publish Date

2024-01-01

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1

Page End

7

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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318,721

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2,807

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Journal

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Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Health Related Quality of Life of Family Caregivers of Dependent Elderly

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Created At

24 Dec 2024