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Search for: [Abstract = "staying at home \(Group A\) – 86.0% \(n=43\), as well as the persons with Alzheimer's disease using day care centres \(Group B\) – 78.0%. The age of the caregivers taking care of the persons with Alzheimer's disease ranged between 32 and 84. \(Min\-32, Max\-84\). In Group A 52.0% \(n=26\) of the caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease limited the time devoted to professional work, and among the caregivers in Group B this limitation referred to 48.0% \(n=24\) of persons. A lack of help in the care provided to persons with Alzheimer's disease was declared by 21.0% \(n=21\) of all caregivers. The vast majority of caregivers, 79.0% \(n=79\), were receiving help in the scope of providing care to the ill person. The analysed caregivers in Group A and B were devoting a comparable number of hours to care provided to the person with Alzheimer's disease, on average it was 71.3% of the day in both groups. The total result from five subscales of the Caregiver Burden Scale indicates a medium level of burdening of the caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease \(2.77 points\). A high level of the caregivers’ burden referred to the Caregiver Burden Scale in the general strain subscale in both, Group A and B of the analysed subjects \(3.07 points vs. 3.16 points\). The mean of the isolation subscale from the Caregiver Burden Scale in Group A indicated a medium level of burden \(2.78 points\), whereas in"]

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