ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2017
Lower Visual Avoidance in Dementia Patients Is Associated with Greater Psychological Distress in Caregivers.
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Developing and Evaluating In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Developing and Evaluating In-Home Supportive Technology for Caregivers of People With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Commercializing In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Commercializing In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Commercializing In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia Caregivers
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating In-home Assistive Technology for Dementia Caregivers.Clinical gerontologistTrial
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- Diminished preparatory physiological responses in people with dementia: associations with caregiver health and relationship quality.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning in People Living With Neurodegenerative Disease (Part 1): Construct Validity of a New Measure.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning in People Living With Neurodegenerative Disease (Part 2): Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of a New Measure.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Caregiving in the face of empathy loss in Frontotemporal Dementia: an integrative review.Aging & mental health · 2025Review
- Emotion regulation in people living with dementia and their spouses: the role of neuropsychiatric symptoms.Aging & mental health · 2024Article
- Interpersonal linkage in positive and negative emotional behaviors, emotional well-being, and physical functioning in dementia caregivers.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Empathic Accuracy and Shared Depressive Symptoms in Close Relationships.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Understanding social attachment as a window into the neural basis of prosocial behavior.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Diminished Visual Attention to Emotional Faces Is Associated with Poor Emotional Valence Perception in Frontotemporal Dementia.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2022Article
- Poor Disgust Suppression Is Associated with Increased Anxiety in Caregivers of People with Neurodegenerative Disease.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Emotional and Cognitive Empathy in Caregivers of Persons with Neurodegenerative Disease: Relationships with Caregiver Mental Health.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A 12-Month Follow-Up Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Pronoun Use during Patient-Caregiver Interactions: Associations with Caregiver Well-Being.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2020Article
- Stress and Illness: A Role for Specific Emotions.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Emotion regulation via visual avoidance: Insights from neurological patients.Neuropsychologia · 2019Article
- Effect of memantine combined with citalopram on cognition of BPSD and moderate Alzheimer's disease: A clinical trial.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
- Evaluating Patient Brain and Behavior Pathways to Caregiver Health in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2019Article
- Greater Experience of Negative Non-Target Emotions by Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases Is Related to Lower Emotional Well-Being in Caregivers.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
Caring for a spouse with dementia can lead to increased health problems in caregivers. The present study examined whether patient deficits in visual avoidance, a common form of emotion regulation, are related to greater psychological distress in caregivers. Participants were 43 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients, 43 behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) patients, and their spousal caregivers. Patient visual avoidance (e.g., gaze aversion) was measured using behavioral coding of head, body, and eye position while viewing a disgusting film. Caregiver psychological distress was measured using a standard self-report symptom inventory. Lower use of visual avoidance by patients was associated with greater psychological distress in their caregivers. This relationship was partially mediated by patient overall emotional functioning (as reported by caregivers), such that patients with less visual avoidance were seen as having worse emotional functioning, which in turn related to greater caregiver psychological distress. Dementia diagnosis moderated this effect, with diminished patient visual avoidance particularly detrimental to psychological distress of bvFTD caregivers. Findings suggest that the use of visual avoidance may serve as a marker of overall emotional functioning in patients and that preservation of this emotion regulatory behavior may help reduce the negative effects of caregiving.
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