Sentence examples for a proxy caregiver from inspiring English sources

The CMAI assesses 29 agitated behaviors, rated by a proxy caregiver, e.g., pacing, hiding or hoarding things, hitting (including self), repetitive sentences or questions.

The respondent, who is a proxy caregiver to the person with dementia answers with 'agree' or 'disagree' to the items, e.g., 'shows interest in events from past'dozeszes off or does nothing'talkslks about wanting to leave'.

For patients who had difficulty with verbal communication, a nurse specialist assessed their status using a proxy or caregiver response.

Some individual item scores for the person with dementia do not correlate with those of the proxy caregiver [ 82, 84].

The proxy caregiver's rating of the study tools was also measured, to gauge feasibility and effectiveness.

Reasons for using a proxy included caregivers knowing better than patients about care-related matters, patients too weak to be interviewed, and patients having language barriers.

No proxy caregivers were used to provide consent on behalf of the patients.

Therefore, and because the proxy caregivers are also interviewed, it was proposed that double written consent was given, ie. both from person with dementia and his/her caregiver.

These results suggest that if clinicians or researchers do rely on caregiver assessments as a proxy for patient concerns they should also measure caregiver burden and may need to adjust for differences and disagreement.

Since dfs were unavailable in the LSB21, we used dental visits reported by a caregiver as a proxy for the occurrence of dental caries.

37 In these individuals, self-report is not an option, and a proxy rater, usually a primary caregiver, who knows the patient and their usual behavior, should be included in pain assessment.