HONOLULU/ASIA AGING STUDY--CAREGIVER CASE CONTROL STUDY

檀香山-亚洲老年护理人员研究将于本财年结束 年这项研究提供了2年的数据收集季度 大约200例痴呆症患者和大约200例对照组。 信息的主要来源是对一些人的采访 被确定为病例中的照顾者和 那些在控制组。访谈旨在应对变化 患者特征，特别是他们的认知和身体 功能和照顾者的职责，感知和生活质量。的 护理人员研究由NINR机构内协议资助 （Y 03-AG-4-0266）与1991年开始的NHLBI和NIA。工作人员 护理研究所率先设计了护理人员协议， NIA/NHLBI痴呆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.