Family caregivers' experiences of relinquishing the care of a person with dementia to a nursing home: insights from a meta-ethnographic study

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作者
Graneheim, Ulla H. [1 ]
Johansson, Anneli [1 ]
Lindgren, Britt-Marie [1 ]
机构
[1] Umea Univ, Dept Nursing, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden
关键词
nursing home placement; experiences; meta-ethnography; family caregiver; dementia; OLDER-PEOPLE; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; DECISION; PLACEMENT; RELATIVES; MEMBER; BURDEN; VIEWS; STAFF;
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10.1111/scs.12046
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R47 [护理学];
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1011 ;
摘要
Many people with dementia are cared for in their homes by family caregivers. As the dementia progresses, admission of the family member to a nursing home becomes inevitable. The aim of this meta-ethnographic study was to describe caregivers' experiences of relinquishing the care of a family member with dementia to a nursing home. A systematic literature search of PubMed, Cinahl and PsychInfo, between the years 1992 and 2012, was performed, and 10 qualitative articles, based on 180 family caregivers' experiences, were included. The family caregivers' described their experiences as a process that went from being responsible for the decision, through living with the decision, adjusting to a new caring role and having changed relationships. They felt unprepared and lonely with these changes. They experienced loss, guilt and shame, but also feelings of relief. Their roles in the nursing home environment were to make sure that the individual needs of the person with dementia were respected and to monitor the quality of care. They wished to maintain their relationship with the person with dementia and to establish meaningful relationships with caring staff. The process of relinquishing care is similar to a crisis process, which starts with a turning point, followed by a coping face and finally the outcome of the process. The adaption to the new situation can be facilitated if the family caregivers are recognised as partners in the care of the person with dementia. The family caregivers' unique knowledge of their relatives' previous life story should be acknowledged in both care planning and daily care. Welcoming family caregivers to regular meetings with staff can contribute to increase the feeling of partnership. Offering staff clinical supervision could be one way of preparing them to deal with the emotional strain reported by family caregivers.
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