Alzheimer's Family Issues

This investigation chose to find several these individuals (being family caregivers) and supplied them with surveys to find what family caregivers go through, 315 surveys were sent out and only 81 were received back. This information includes aspects of their lives such as, services and support is available to them, what services they utilize in the care of the family member with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, what needs were and were not being met, and how difficult the care for the individual with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease is seen by the family. According to the previous research done on Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, there are many different challenges families face, among these challenges are: trying to find employment or getting …show more content…
Creating these tensions, can also result in finance issues and possible problems with spouses. The survey asked a limited number of questions about caregiving for a family member with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (as to get as many responses as they could) in addition to these questions the survey asked for identifiable information such as gender (caregiver and those receiving the care), the relationship, and setting in which they …show more content…
The youngest recipient of care from a family member was 32 years of age and the average age of those receiving care was 56. As well as taking care of a family member with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, some indicated to taking care of others too, some have children under the age of 18, others were taking care of their parents, and others reported taking care of other family members. All families did report using some services provided for them, of those provided services, day adult services and home health care were the top two services used by the 81 respondents. However, these were the informal services, not the formal ones, over half of the participants reported not using the formal services which are specific to Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Most of the respondents were employed, most being full time while less than a quarter of respondents were employed part time. While looking at the financial aspects of the respondents, the money for the care of those with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease came from health insurance, Social Security Disability Insurance, or other means of income (out-of-pocket expenses included). In all of this, the main question was whether the needs of the families were being met, by having adequate services and programs available for those with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Respondents