PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BARRIERS AND INTENTIONS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (AD) AND RELATED DEMENTIAS (AD/ADRD) CAREGIVERS
Andrew Pickett, Rebecca Krukowski, Nicole Werner · 2023
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Andrew Pickett and co-authors survey, in a 2023 study, what stops dementia caregivers from being active. Caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia often harms the caregiver's own health and leaves little room for exercise. Yet activity guards both body and mind. The team surveyed one hundred seventeen family caregivers online about their wish to move more and the barriers in their way.
Caregivers voiced a strong wish to be more active, and named care demands as a top barrier. Open answers added lack of time and energy, being unable to leave the person alone, and rival duties. Caregivers who lived with the person they cared for differed in intent and burden from those who lived apart. Kinship type, by contrast, made no difference. The authors call for programs built around caregivers' real limits.
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| CREATOR | Andrew Pickett, Rebecca Krukowski, Nicole Werner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |