Health-related quality of life in community dwelling patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease

Conclusions Depressive symptoms mostly worsen the caregiver tolerability of the patient mental impoverishment. It is of great importance to assess patients with mild-to-moderate AD carefully in terms of depressive symptoms because they may have a great clinical implication. There was relatively low agreement between ratings concerning HRQoL obtained by patients and caregivers despite the capacity of the questionnaire to yield many clinical shades concerning the patient HRQoL.
Source: European Geriatric Medicine - Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research