The Impact of the Primary Caregiver in the Functional and Cognitive Impairment Hospitalized Elderly

• Published in: European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education psychology and education, 2012-04, Vol.2 (2), p.41-52
• Main Authors: Calero-García, Mª José, Ortega, Ana Raquel, Jiménez, Carmen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2254-9625; 2254-9625
• DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe2020004

At the present time there are more than 100.000 people over 85 and this progression will continue in the future. At the same time there is a motion of cares the context of the expense provokes the scarce development of the social and domiciliary attention services. In this contexture the influence of those person who take care of the elder people, as much at home as during the episode of hospital admission, can be decisive in the loss of and cognitive capacity of the elder person. Our aim is to analyze the influence of various people who work as the main caregiver at home and during the hospital admission in the functional and cognitive of the elder person. To reach the investigation results that have been proposed in this work a “quasi” experimental design of repeated measures. Among the results, the influence of the people who act as the main caregivers worth an especial mention, during the elder hospitalization, watching that those people accompanied by their couples and children suffer a softer functional loss, meanwhile their hospitalization. This difference means a great reveal as it makes manifest through the computation of the size of the effect that give us a value for the “d” of Cohen of 0`984. We stand out the novelty of including the type of the main caregiver person at the hospital as one of the factors of back dependence at home and a change of residence after the hospitalization.