OBJECTIVES: We investigated homecare @entity1 with @entity195 ( @entity195 ; n = 36) or @entity1294 ( @entity1294 ; n = 36) and their care-providing relatives regarding clinical and psychosocial variables to determine whether @entity195 and @entity1294 impose different burdens on caregivers. METHOD: All @entity1 were diagnosed according to ICD-10 criteria. The diagnoses were confirmed by internal medical, clinical-neurological, and @entity146 parameters. The severity of the @entity303 was graded according to the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS). Caregiving relatives responded to the Behavioral Pathology in @entity195 Rating Scale (BAD), the Blessed @entity303 Scale (BDS), and the Screen for Caregiver Burden (SCB). RESULTS: Analyses revealed that caregivers' burden (SCB), disease symptoms and personality changes of @entity1 (BAD), and the @entity1 ' inability to cope with everyday tasks (BDS) were sharply higher for @entity195 than for @entity1294 @entity1 in the group with severe @entity303 . Concerning @entity1 with mild or moderately severe disease, scores in the @entity195 group were similar or lower than those in the @entity1294 group. CONCLUSION: In early stages, @entity1294 @entity1 impose a greater burden on relatives than do @entity1 with @entity195 . In severe stages this relationship undergoes a reversal, with relatives of @entity195 @entity1 experiencing the burden more adversely than those of @entity1294 @entity1 . The differences in the onset and course characteristics, as well as the specific differences between these two types of @entity303 with respect to caregiver burden factors, call for their diagnostic separation and the development of specific homecare support systems for family caregivers.

@entity1294 versus XXXX : do they have differential effects on caregivers' burden?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['dementias', 'dementia', 'Dementia'] @entity1294 :: ('MESH:D015140', 'Disease') :: ['vascular dementia', 'VD'] @entity195 :: ('MESH:D000544', 'Disease') :: ['DAT', "Alzheimer's Disease", "dementia of Alzheimer's type"]
@entity195 :: (MESH:D000544,Disease) :: ['dementia of Alzheimer's type']
