HONOLULU/ASIA AGING STUDY--CAREGIVER CASE CONTROL STUDY

檀香山-亚洲老年护理者研究将于本财年结束 年。这项研究提供了两年来每季度收集的数据 大约200例痴呆症患者和大约200名对照组。 信息的主要来源来自对一些人的采访。 在病例中确定为照顾者，并在以下情况中确定为潜在照顾者 对照组。采访的目的是应对变化 患者的特征，特别是他们的认知和身体特征 功能和照顾者的职责、感知和生活质量。这个 照顾者研究由NINR机构内协议资助 (Y03-AG-4-0266)，NHLBI和NIA从1991年开始。工作人员来自 护理研究所率先设计了照顾者方案， NIA/NHLBI痴呆症患病率研究的辅助研究。

The Honolulu-Asia Aging Caregiver Study will be concluded this fiscal year. This study provides 2 years of data collected quarterly on approximately 200 cases of dementia and on approximately 200 controls. The primary source of the information comes from interviews with persons identified as caregivers among cases and as potential caregivers among those in the control group. Interviews were designed to address changes in patient characteristics, particularly their cognitive and physical functioning and caregiver duties, perceptions, and quality of life. The caregiver study was funded by an NINR Intra-agency agreement (Y03-AG-4-0266) with the NHLBI and NIA beginning in 1991. Staff from the Nursing Institute took the lead in designing the caregiver protocol as an ancillary study to the NIA/NHLBI prevalence study of dementia.