High depression and anxiety in people with Alzheimer's disease living in retirement homes during the covid-19 crisis

PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

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El Haj, Mohamad^1,2,3  Altintas, Emin^2,4  Chapelet, Guillaume^5,6  Kapogiannis, Dimitrios⁷  Gallouj, Karim² 

[1] Nantes Univ, Univ Angers, Lab Psychol Pays Loire LPPL EA 4638, F-44000 Nantes, France

[2] Ctr Hosp Tourcoing, Unite Geriatrie, Tourcoing, France

[3] Inst Univ France, Paris, France

[4] Univ Lille Nord France, Lab PSITEC Psychol Interact Temps Emot Cognit, F-59000 Lille, France

[5] Angers Univ Hosp, Dept Geriatr Med, Angers, France

[6] CHU Nantes, Dept Neurol, Ctr Memoire Ressources & Rech, Inserm CIC04, Nantes, France

[7] NIA, Lab Clin Invest, Baltimore, MD 21224 USA

关键词: Alzheimer's disease;    Anxiety;    Covid-19;    Coronavirus;    Depression;    Mental health;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113294

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

To cope with Covid-19 and limits its spread among residents, retirement homes have prohibited physical contact between residents and families and friend and, in some cases, even between residents or between residents and caregivers. We investigated the effects of measures against Covid-19 on the mental health of participants with Alzheimer's disease (AD) who live in retirement homes in France. We instructed on-site caregivers to assess depression and anxiety in participants with mild AD who live in retirement homes. Fifty-eight participants consented to participate in the study. The participants rated their depression and anxiety during and before the Covid-19 crisis. Participants reported higher depression (p = .005) and anxiety (p = .004) during than before the Covid-19 crisis. These increases can be attributed to the isolation of the residents and/or to the drastic changes in their daily life and care they receive. While, in their effort to prevent infections, retirement homes are forced to physically separate residents from the outside world and to drastically reduce residents' activities, these decisions are likely to come at a cost to residents with AD and their mental health.

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