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Care of the older person
Bidirectional relationship between caregiver mastery and anxiety in individuals with cognitive impairment
  1. Mehmet Selman Ontan,
  2. Ahmet Turan Isik
  1. Geriatric Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ahmet Turan Isik; atisik{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103885

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    Commentary on: Yeji Hwang, Miranda V. McPhillips, Liming Huang, G. Adriana Perez and Nancy A. Hodgson, Better caregiver mastery is associated with less anxiety in individuals with cognitive impairment, BMC Nursing. 2023; 22:307.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Anxiety is one of the common neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPs) in individuals with cognitive impairment. Considering the fluctuating and variable course of NPs in dementia, studies with longer follow-up periods are required to understand the relationship between caregiver mastery and anxiety in patients with dementia.

    • Dementia, an umbrella condition, encompasses various neurogenerative diseases that can cause behavioural problems, movement problems, autonomic dysfunction, gait and balance problems, as well as cognitive impairment. Hence, it is important to develop caregiver skills with different strategies for each type of dementia.

    Context

    As the population ages, the prevalence of dementia has increased.1 Due to interruption in activities of daily living, and neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPs) as well as cognitive symptoms in individuals with cognitive impairment, caregiver burden has gradually become more important within dementia practice.2 One common NP of …

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    • Funding None.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.