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Caregiver Burden Hit 65.3% in Older-Adult Disability Care in Nepal

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A 430-caregiver study in Kathmandu found caregiving burden in 65.3% of family caregivers of older adults with disability, with adjusted predictors clustering around low economic status, 8 or more daily care hours, and severe impairment in activities of daily living.1 Research Highlights Burden was the majority experience: 65.3% of 430 family caregivers reported caregiving burden …

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Dementia Caregiver Intervention Needed 24 Cultural Adaptations

A 2026 descriptive study documented 24 major cultural adaptations to the New York University Caregiver Intervention-Enhanced Support (NYUCI-ES) for Chinese and Korean American dementia caregivers. The work is not an outcomes report yet; it is a careful map of how an evidence-based caregiver intervention had to change before it could plausibly fit East Asian immigrant …

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iSupport-Malaysia Dementia Caregiver Program Scored 74.3 on Usability

A 2026 mixed-methods preprint found that iSupport-Malaysia, a multimedia web-based dementia caregiver psychoeducation program, reached a good System Usability Scale score of 74.3. That is enough to justify pilot testing, but not enough to claim caregiver mental-health benefit: 33.3% of usability-test participants failed sign-up, 20.0% failed search, and Loh et al. did not measure burden, …

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