Psychological and behavioral symptoms severity in patient with Alzheimer's disease

Abstract

Introduction: The world aging is a victory but also a challenge. Cuba Population has gone from 17, 4% of 60 year-old people and more in 2009, until 20,1,% in the 2017. The Alzheimer's disease is the most common, illness that evolves for stages, and as long as it goes from a stage to another the psychological and behavioral symptoms are
increased; increasing the demand of special cares, important function carried out by the principal caregivers.

Objective: identify the psychological and behavioral symptoms severity of patients with minor and moderate Alzheimer disease from the main carer perspective. Method: Descriptive study of a sample of 35 principal caregivers of patient with minor and moderate Alzheimer disease from the policlinic "Carlos Manuel Portuondo" of Marianao municipality. Statistical charts of absolute frequency and percentage were made for the processing and statistical analysis of the information.

Results: the eating disorder, the depression and the repetitions prevailed in the light category; in the moderate one prevailed the dream disorder and the repetitions and in the severe category was more frequents the irritability and the repetitions.

Conclusions: It should be carried out similar investigations that allow designing programs of interventions that allow to minimize or to mitigate the negative effect that the care produces in the principal caregivers.