Search for: [Abstract = "Background The increase of average life expectancy and, thus, an increase of the number of elderly people, is the source of various problems associated with old age. Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent type of dementia. It is a chronic disease, correlated with age and, thanks to the introduction of innovative diagnosing methods, it is diagnosed more and more frequently. Providing care to a chronically ill family member with Alzheimer's disease is a burden to the caregiver. Depending on the stage of the disease, the caregiver comes across various problems from the side of the person he or she is taking care of. Burden is a term functioning in psychology and in medicine, defined as the consequences resulting from living with a person who is mentally ill. The contemporarily used definition by Zarit takes into consideration both, the physical, emotional, material and social costs of the caregiver’s burden, resulting from providing care to a chronically ill person. The notions of a formal and an informal caregiver do not have clearly and unequivocally specified definitions. The term formal or professional caregiver frequently applies to defining persons who professionally work at institutions such as\: hospitals, residential care homes, nursing homes. The term informal caregiver refers to persons providing non\-professional care, who are most frequently family members. The term"]

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