Caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes considerable distress in caregivers who are continuously required to deal with requests from patients. Coping strategies play a fundamental role in modulating the psychologic impact of the disease, although their role is still debated. The present study aims to evaluate the burden and anxiety experienced by caregivers, the effectiveness of adopted coping strategies, and their relationships with burden and anxiety.

Coping strategies and cognitive functioning in elderly people from a rural community in Italy.

Stressful situations may contribute to pathological states in elderly people facing harmful events. This study investigated the relationships between adopting appropriate coping strategies, transforming circumstances to personal preferences or adjusting personal preferences to situational constraints, and the efficiency of cognitive functioning in an elderly sample of 121 residents drawn from a rural community in southern Italy. They were administered the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Tenacious Goal Pursuit, Flexible Goal Adjustment, and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations.

Age differences in mental scanning of locomotor maps.

Purpose: To investigate whether the metric quality of mental spatial representations of the environment changes with aging, by means of mental scanning of locomotor space.

Method: Twenty young adults (age 21.1-30.