Facilitating social coping‐‘seeking emotional and practical support from others’‐as a critical strategy in maintaining the family care of people with dementia
| Autor: | Mark Parkinson, Susan Carr, Clare Abley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coping (psychology)
Emotional support Sociology and Political Science Emotions L500 North east Anxiety B700 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Dementia 030212 general & internal medicine Family carer 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Stressor Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support medicine.disease B900 Caregivers 0305 other medical science Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Health & Social Care in the Community. 30:558-569 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2524 0966-0410 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/hsc.13159 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to identify how the family care of people living with dementia could be supported to make reliance on family care sustainable in the long term despite the impact of stress. A Realist Evaluation (Pawson & Tilley, 1997) was conducted to investigate this aim. An initial review established ‘coping’ as a primary means of mediating stressors associated with caregiving. However, there was a need to specify which coping approaches/strategies are most effective. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of family carers (n = 18) in a suburb in North East England from 2016 to 2017. Analysis of the data revealed ‘social coping’ (SC) that included an emotional support component as a critical mediator of family carer stress. Several key hindrances to the utilisation of SC, including underpinning causal factors, are explicated. Ways in which these hindrances might be overcome are discussed and guidelines introduced for how family carers, formal providers and practitioners can facilitate SC as a critical coping strategy in sustaining the family care of people with dementia over the long term. |
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