Validation and expansion of a behavioral framework for dementia care partner resilience (CP-R).

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Resilience - the ability to bounce back after a stressor - is a core component of successful family caregiving for people living with dementia. In this manuscript, we describe the preliminary empirical validation of a new behavioral framework developed from existing literature for assessing care partner resilience, CP-R, and propose its potential value for future research and clinical care.

Methods

We selected 27 dementia care partners who reported significant challenges prompted by a recent health crisis of their care recipient from three local university-affiliated hospitals in the United States. We conducted semi-structured interviews to elicit care partners' accounts of what they did to address those challenges that helped them recover during an

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521159 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature