Title |
Problemas en el proceso de adaptación a los cambios en personas cuidadoras familiares de mayores con demencia
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Published in |
Gaceta Sanitaria, March 2016
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DOI | 10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.02.004 |
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Authors |
Sara Moreno-Cámara, Pedro Ángel Palomino-Moral, Lourdes Moral-Fernández, Antonio Frías-Osuna, Rafael del-Pino-Casado |
Abstract |
To identify and analyse problems in adapting to change among the family caregivers of relatives with dementia. Qualitative study based on the methodology of Charmaz's Constructivist Grounded Theory. Seven focus groups were conducted in different primary health care centres in the province of Jaen (Spain). Eighty-two primary family caregivers of relatives with dementia participated by purposeful maximum variation sampling and theoretical sampling. Triangulation analysis was carried out to increase internal validity. We obtained three main categories: 'Changing Care', 'Problems in the process of adapting to change' and 'Facilitators of the process of adapting to change'. Family caregivers perform their role in a context characterized by personal change, both in the person receiving the care and in the social and cultural context. The challenge of adaptation lies in the balance between the problems that hamper adaptation of the caregiver to new situations of care and the factors that facilitate the caregiver role. The adaptation of family caregivers to caring for a person with dementia is hindered by the lack of formal support and under-diagnosis of dementia. The adaptation process could be improved by strengthening formal support in the early stages of care to reduce the stress of family caregivers who must teach themselves about their task and by interventions adapted to each phase in the development of the caregiver role. |
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Spain | 1 | 100% |
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Student > Bachelor | 30 | 21% |
Student > Master | 24 | 16% |
Researcher | 14 | 10% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 6% |
Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 5% |
Other | 18 | 12% |
Unknown | 43 | 29% |
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Psychology | 18 | 12% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 7 | 5% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
Other | 9 | 6% |
Unknown | 45 | 31% |