Family caregivers leaving their jobs for cares of people with dementia at home: Study of current condition and necessary factors for support systems.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25671000
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: The Open University of Japan
• Principal Investigator: IDE SATOSHI 放送大学, 教養学部, 教授 (10305922)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TOGARI Taisuke 放送大学, 教養学部, 教授 (20509525)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 介護離職 / ポジティブ感情 / 自己成長感 / ストレス関連成長 / 首尾一貫性感覚 / 把握可能感 / 対処可能感 / 介護家族

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It seems that the experience of having positive feelings about caring is an important factor for family caregivers of people with dementia continuing both caring at home and working at jobs. Particularly, it is found that the experience of consistent feeling of being himself/herself through the time of caring, and the experience to overcome stress from caring is important for family caregivers to face various issues of caring positively, including leaving jobs. Future studies should be focused on clarifying how the support system would be implemented in a community and companies along the aspect of the findings.

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