The Challenges experienced by home-based palliative caregivers of the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) a review
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As the world’s population ages due to increasing longevity, many elderly people are affected by many diseases, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is another disease susceptible more to the ageing population. AD is a kind of degeneration in the brain and the elderly with AD suffer a progressive functional and cognitive decline, and is the most common cause of dementia, which causes challenges to the elderly patient as well as family caregivers. Home-based palliative care provides care and support especially to terminally ill patients, surrounded by their family caregivers. Providing palliative care at home to terminally sick elderly is important as elderly people deserve dignity, comfort, and affection together with the family during the final stage of life. This article aims to describe: 1. Introduction to Alzheimer’s disease; 2. Importance of home-based palliative care for the elderly; and 3. Challenges experienced by home-based palliative caregivers of the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease. The study used a rapid reviewing method to collect relevant data, information, and contents related to the objectives from various electronic source search engines, searched by typing keywords such as Alzheimer’s disease, goals and challenges of palliative care of the elderly at home by family caregivers and the relevant contents were analyzed. The article is organized into sections: Background; Introduction to Alzheimer's disease; Importance of home-based palliative care for elderly with Alzheimer's disease; Challenges experienced by home-based palliative family caregivers of elderly with Alzheimer's disease; and lastly Discussion, Conclusion, and Recommendations. The findings of this article provide a better understanding of Alzheimer's disease, the importance of palliative care at home for elderly people with AD, and the challenges encountered in providing care.
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