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Caregiver Burnout

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Caring for patients with major neurocognitive disorders, other neuropsychiatric disorders, or functional impairments can lead to caregiver burnout, resulting in premature nursing home placement of the patient and increased risk for physical health problems and mortality in the caregiver. This chapter discusses risk factors and management strategies to help prevent early nursing home placement due to caregiver burnout, to prevent deterioration of caregiver health related to the burden of caregiving, and to reduce adverse health outcomes for patients. This chapter’s goal is to educate clinicians how to reduce risk of caregiver burnout and to preserve a rich and meaningful experience of a caregiver-patient relationship.

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  1. San Francisco Veterans Affairs/UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Kurtis S. Kaminishi MD, MBA

  2. Los Angeles Veterans Affairs/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Reza Safavi

  3. Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Calvin H. Hirsch

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Ana Hategan

  2. Baylor Scott and White Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, Texas, USA

    James A. Bourgeois

  3. Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA

    Calvin H. Hirsch

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA

    Caroline Giroux

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Kaminishi, K.S., Safavi, R., Hirsch, C.H. (2018). Caregiver Burnout. In: Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J., Hirsch, C., Giroux, C. (eds) Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67555-8_34

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