Factors associated with health-related quality of life of informal caregivers of older patients and the mediating role of subjective caregivers' burden.

Background: Caregiving has been associated with increased subjective burden and decreased health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for caregivers. The aim of the study was to clarify the precise relationship between caregivers' burden, caregivers' HRQOL, and other risk factors, considering that subjective burden was a risk factor for poor HRQOL, which may also mediate the effects of some known risk factors.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, patients' and their informal caregivers' characteristics were recorded for 311 patient-caregiver dyads.

Factors Affecting Caregivers' Burden in a Sample of Greek Family Caregivers Caring for Older Adults.

Caregivers' burden may vary across different countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate factors associated with caregivers' burden in a sample of Greek patient-caregiver dyads, including patients' frailty status among the evaluated variables. In 204 patient-caregiver dyads, patients' and caregivers' characteristics were recorded.

The Indirect Effect of the Frailty of Dependent Elderly People Needing Hospitalization on Their Informal Caregivers' Anxiety.

Background A high prevalence of anxiety symptoms has been identified among the caregivers of disabled older people. The aim of the study was to explore the relationships between objective burden (intensity of care and burdensome characteristics of the care recipient, like frailty status), caregiver characteristics, subjective burden, and anxiety in a sample of informal caregivers caring for hospitalized elderly patients.  Methods In this cross-sectional study, patients' and their informal caregivers' characteristics were recorded for 311 patient-caregiver dyads.

The Case Report of a 97-Year-Old Patient With Chronic Anemia and Hemoglobin Value of 1.7 g/dl and Review of the Literature.

Although hemoglobin levels beneath 6.5 g/dl are considered to be life-threatening and the patients theoretically suffer from a cluster of symptoms, few cases of patients who seek medical assistance when their hemoglobin levels had fallen beneath 3 g/dl have been reported in the literature. Here, we describe the case of a 97-year-old patient who was transferred to the emergency department with dyspnea and the initial screening tests showed a hemoglobin level of 1.

A Case of an Inflamed Pericardial Cyst As the Cause of Acute Onset Chest Pain in a Young Patient and Review of the Literature.

Among the extensive variety of disorders that can cause chest pain are the complicated pericardial cysts, pathological entities that otherwise are asymptomatic. Here, we describe a 34-year-old male patient with a symptomatic pericardial cyst presenting at the emergency department with acute chest pain that woke him up about six hours prior to presentation. The work up for his acute chest pain revealed a well-defined, fluid-filled, rounded mass next to the pericardium on the right cardiophrenic angle and increased acute phase reactants.