Caregivers of patients with dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) face special health challenges due to the progressive nature of the disease. Self‐care has crucial importance on individuals’ management of life, health, and well‐being. However, l...
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https://www.riss.kr/link?id=O119935669
2019년
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1346-3500
1479-8301
SCOPUS;SCIE
학술저널
23-31 [※수록면이 p5 이하이면, Review, Columns, Editor's Note, Abstract 등일 경우가 있습니다.]
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Caregivers of patients with dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) face special health challenges due to the progressive nature of the disease. Self‐care has crucial importance on individuals’ management of life, health, and well‐being. However, l...
Caregivers of patients with dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) face special health challenges due to the progressive nature of the disease. Self‐care has crucial importance on individuals’ management of life, health, and well‐being. However, limited evidence is available on self‐care management of dementia and AD caregivers. This study aimed to investigate the influence of caregiving on the self‐care management of dementia and AD caregivers based on the caregivers’ experience. In addition, the facilitators of caregivers’ self‐care management were assessed.
A sample of 45 caregivers of patients with dementia or AD was recruited from a local community in the south‐eastern USA. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted. Data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by the method of cross‐case thematic analysis of qualitative data.
As reported by the caregivers, caregiving negatively influenced their self‐care management, including physical self‐care and mental and social self‐care. Both internal and external facilitators were found that can assist caregivers’ self‐care. Caregivers differ considerably in their demographic characteristics, caregiving tasks, and self needs.
Self‐care management of dementia and AD caregivers can be largely affected by caregiving. Awareness, motivation, and knowledge of self‐care, as well as knowledge of health‐care resources, are important prerequisites for caregivers to achieve self‐care management. Given the massive differences in caregiving situations, future intervention studies based on the specific needs of individual caregivers are warranted.
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