Spouses who care for partners with dementia at sixfold higher risk of same fate: Stress of caregiving may be to blame
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 23:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Husbands or wives who care for spouses with dementia are six times more likely to develop the memory-impairing condition than those whose spouses don't have it, according to results of a 12-year study. The increased risk that the researchers saw among caregivers was on par with the power of a gene variant known to increase susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease, they report.