A Needs-led Framework for Understanding the Impact of Caring for a Family Member With Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Approximately half the care for people with dementia is provided by families. It is therefore imperative that research informs ways of maintaining such care. In this study, we propose that a needs-led approach can provide a useful, novel means of conceptualizing the impact of caring on the lives of family carers. Our aim was to develop and present a needs-led framework for understanding how providing care impacts on carers' fulfilment of needs.

Design and methods

In this qualitative study, we conducted 42 semistructured interviews with a purposively diverse sample of family carers to generate nuanced contextualized accounts of how caring impacted on carers' lives. Our inductive thematic analysis focused upon asking: "What need is being impacted here

SUBMITTER: Pini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5946854 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature