Sociodemographic Profile, Health Conditions, and Burden of Informal Caregivers of Older Adults in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional, Exploratory, Noninterventional, Descriptive Study.
Pâmela Moraes FerreiraMateus Cunha GomesLucianne Nascimento de AraujoGlenda Roberta Oliveira Naiff FerreiraCintia Aben-AtharSílvio Éder Dias da SilvaAline Maria Pereira Cruz RamosDiego Pereira RodriguesFabianne SousaPublished in: JMIR formative research (2023)
In recent years, there has been an increase in the burden on informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults in Brazil, thereby impacting their personal and physical lives. The findings of our study show that health care professionals should be trained to promote health guidelines and actions to improve the personal and physical lives of the caregiver population in Brazil.