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Article: Caregivers who place loved ones in nursing homes remain depressed.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2004
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Byline: Stacey Burling
PHILADELPHIA _ Contrary to what researchers expected, placing a loved one with dementia in a nursing home does not make caregivers feel better.
In fact, most were just as depressed and anxious after their family member was in the nursing home, and some felt worse, said Richard Schulz, a University of Pittsburgh psychiatry professor who led a government-funded study published Wednesday. Anxiety abated after a year, but depression remained just as high as when the dementia patients were at home.
Caring for someone in the later stages of Alzheimer's disease is both mentally and physically exhausting, so one might expect that ...