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Thus, the role of patient caregivers becomes crucial to warrantee treatment compliance.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>To assess the factors associated to patients and caregivers on medication adherence of patients with AD and other types of dementia as well as the degree of caregiver satisfaction with respect to treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study among the caregivers of 100 patients with AD and other types of dementia of the \u201cCartagena and Region Association of Relatives of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and other Neurodegenerative Diseases\u201d was conducted to assess patient and caregiver factors that influence medication adherence evaluated with the Morisky-Green-Levine test.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Overall, adherence to treatment was 71%, with similar proportions between male and female patients. Greater adherence was found in married or widowed patients (49.3%), first degree (85.9%) or female (81.7%) caregivers but lower in AD patients (75.9%). Multivariate analysis showed a statistically significant positive association between non-adherence and male sex of the caregiver (OR 3.512 [95%IC 1.124\u201310.973]), dementia (OR 3.065 [95%IC 1.019\u20139.219]), type of caregiver (non-first-degree relative) (OR 0.325 [95%IC 0.054\u20130.672]) and civil status of the patient (OR 2.011 [95%IC 1.155\u20133.501]) favorable for married or widowed patients. No or week association was found with gender, age, education level, number of drugs used or polymedicated status of the patient. Caregivers considered the use (90%) and administration (91%) of the treatment easy or very easy and rarely interfered with their daily life, especially for female caregivers (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.016). Finally, 71% indicated that they were satisfied or very satisfied with the treatment received by the patient.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Caregivers influence therapeutic management with predictors for improved adherence including female gender and first-degree kinship, together with patient's marital status. 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