Age and quality of life of family caregivers of individuals with dementia living at home: Systematic literature review

Methods: Studies addressing the quality of life (QoL) of older (≥65) family caregivers of people with dementia living at home and those correlating family caregivers’ age with QoL outcomeswere included. Search in Medline-OVID, Embase-OVID, PsycINFO-OVID and CINAHL, Google Scholar, SIGLE, as well as hand searchingand devising the references of the selected articles were performed. Publications were peer reviewed had their quality assessed, with conflicts resolved by discussion or by a third reviewer.