Burden of women caregivers looking after persons with dementia

The purpose of this study was to describe the burden of women care givers of persons with dementia. Forty rural women caregivers of persons with dementia were selected as respondents of the study. The persons with dementia were registered in the District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) Thiruvananthapuram in 2014. Regarding community-based community outreach center in Primary health centers. The carers were administered The Zarit Burden Interview (1980) individually. The Survey method was adopted to collect the demographic data from the selected respondents. The collected data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science and parametric z tests were used to draw the meaningful inferences. The less than half 42.5 per cent of the respondents were having a moderate level of burden, More than one third 35 per cent of the respondents were experiencing mild burden and Minimum 15 per cent of the respondents were experiencing severe burden and only 7.2 per cent reported to experience a little or no burden in caregiving. Based on the present findings, the researcher may conclude that the informal care rendered to chronically disabled older-adults and their burden has to be prevented and intervened. International Labour organization must recognize the informal care. It is suggested that the future carers have to be attached to wellbeing centers for lessening the burden of informal caring and to provide sustainability to informal caregivers.