The role of frailty among the predictors of depression on informal caregivers of older adults: a mediation analysis.

Ioannis VrettosPanagiota VoukelatouAndreas KyvetosKonstantinos MakrilakisPetros P SfikakisAthanasios RaptisDimitris Niakas

Published in: Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (2023)

By organising interventions to reduce caregivers' depression, patients' frailty status could be among the targets of those interventions considering that frailty might be delayed or reversed.

Keyphrases

physical activity
end stage renal disease
depressive symptoms
palliative care
community dwelling
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
sleep quality
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
social support
patient reported outcomes