Preliminary evaluation of a tailored difficulty index for long-distance family caregivers of older adults with dementia
Francesca B Falzarano, Verena R Cimarolli, Catherine Riffin, Sara J Czaja, Kathrin Boerner · 2025
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Francesca Falzarano and co-authors test a strain scale built for faraway caregivers in a 2025 pilot study. Most dementia caregiving research assumes the helper lives nearby. Long-distance caregivers face their own strains, like checking care quality from afar, which old scales miss. Forty such caregivers in a support program trial complete a new nine-item difficulty index plus standard burden measures.
Factor analysis keeps eight items in two clusters, they report, and the scale hangs together well. Scores track known burden and strain measures as expected. The authors call the index promising but early, needing larger trials before clinics lean on it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francesca B Falzarano, Verena R Cimarolli, Catherine Riffin, Sara J Czaja, Kathrin Boerner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |