Understanding care of people with dementia in Spain: cohabitation arrangements, rotation and rejection to long term care institution.

Background: Most people with dementia in Spain live at home with their families. Current changes in the family structure are transforming the care of people with dementia through new cohabitation arrangenments and rotation practices.

Objective: To describe the cohabitation arrangements of families of people with dementia in Spain and to understand the caregivers' characteristics related to rotation and the rejection of long term care institutions.

Quality of life and its assessment in multiple sclerosis: integrating physical and psychological components of wellbeing.

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been more intensively studied in multiple sclerosis (MS) than in any other neurological disorder. Traditional medical models of impairment and disability are an incomplete summary of disease burden. Quality of life can be thought of as the sum of all sources of satisfaction (including anticipated sources) minus all threats (including anticipated threats).

Informal caregiving in multiple sclerosis patients: data from the Madrid Demyelinating Disease Group study.

Purpose: To describe the profile of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient caregivers and assess their caregiving burden.

Methods: A total of 91 MS patients, recruited from a Spanish longitudinal survey, and their corresponding caregivers were studied. Caregivers were administered a questionnaire that collected social and demographic data, and a generic caregiver burden interview (the Zarit scale).