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The science

This is not burnout. It is a syndrome.

What happens to a dementia caregiver has a shape. It is predictable, it is measurable in the body, and it is different from the things it usually gets called.

This part of the site is the evidence, the framework we propose, and the honest limits of both. It is written plainly, because the person who most needs it is usually not a clinician.

A syndrome drawn as connected systems rather than a single symptom.

The boundary, stated once and meant.

This research describes dementia caregiving. It is not evidence that Proxi changes the disease or a clinical outcome.

Dementia Caregiver Syndrome is a synthesising framework proposed by ProxiCare, grounded in published caregiver-health research. It is a framework we propose, not yet a validated clinical diagnosis.

Where a number comes from someone else's study, we say so and link it. Where we are reasoning rather than measuring, we say that too.

You should be able to check every claim on this site. That is the only reason to make them.

The frameworkWhat Dementia Caregiver Syndrome proposes, how the loop builds, and how it differs from burden, burnout and depression.
What research has measuredThe health, economic and personal findings, with their sources and their limits.
For cliniciansReferral, screening, the companion, billing, training. Task first.
SourcesEverything cited, in three categories that are never blended.

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Two ways in.

Dementia Caregiver Syndrome, defined

The framework, the four stages, and what it explains that burden scores do not.

What research has measured

The numbers, with their sources, their populations and their limits.

For clinicians

Refer a caregiver, screening, the companion, billing, training, collaboration.

Sources, plainly cited

The bibliography, in three categories.

Proxi is not emergency support and does not provide medical advice.