Table 3.

Summary of Geriatric Syndrome and Caregiver.

First author/published year	Patients’ characteristics (mean age, M/F)	Measurement/method	Results	Follow-up	Study design	Assessment items
Kane et al/2012 [71]	NA	eight geriatric syndromes (multiple comorbidities, cognitive impairment, frailty, disability, malnutrition, impaired homeostasis and chronic inflammation) and survival	Geriatric syndrome helps to understand the survival for younger old persons but provides little information for the very old	NA	systematic review	geriatric assessments
Svendsboe et al/2016 [73]	74.9, 72/114	caregiver burden (RSS), cognitive function (MMSE, CDR-SOB), Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPI, MADRS, UPDRS), other variables (CIRS, RDRS-2)	Caregivers to people with AD and to people with DLB experience moderate or high caregiver burden with increased risk of psychiatric disorder in early stage of dementia	NA	cross-sectional study	caregiver

Abbrevations: RSS, Relative Stress Scale; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; CDR-SOB, Clinical Dementia Rating scale sum of boxes; NPI, Neuropsychiatric In- inventory; MADRS, Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale; UPDRS, The Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; CIRS, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale; RDRS-2, the Rapid Disability Rating Scale-2; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; DLB, dementia with Lewy bodies; NA, not available