| Help-seeking by older husbands caring for wives with dementia. | |
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PMID: 17608688 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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AIM: This paper reports a study to gain understanding of the help-seeking process of older husbands caring for wives with dementia. BACKGROUND: Men comprise 41% of spousal caregivers. However, few reports describe older husbands' caregiving experiences and none specifically explore help-seeking in men caring for wives with dementia. METHOD: A grounded theory design was used to discover a theory of help-seeking by older caregiver husbands. Audiotaped interviews were conducted during 2004 and 2005 with nine husband participants. The interviews were analysed by a research group to discover the core category and the relationships of related categories to develop a theory of help-seeking that was grounded in the data. Margaret Newman's theory of Health as Expanding Conscious provided a theoretical perspective for interpretation of the findings. FINDINGS: The core category, 'Doing the best I can', was preceded by the antecedent of 'changing patterns'. Husbands made choices to use action/interaction strategies of 'Relinquishing', 'Reaching out' and 'Shouldering' which were influenced by a variety of internal, relational, situational, and experiential facilitating or hindering intervening conditions. The consequence of help-seeking process was 'Continuing on', which had categories of: 'Keeping at home', 'Staying together', and 'Taking care of myself'. CONCLUSION: Help-seeking by older husband caregivers is complex and gender-specific. Interventions to assist these caregivers must also be gender-specific and complement already existing help-seeking patterns. Focusing on helping caregivers to discover their patterns of relating and help-seeking empowers them to find new ways of interacting and to discover possibilities for action. |
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Authors:
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Janet Witucki Brown; Shu-li Chen; Carolyn Mitchell; Amy Province |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2007-07-02 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of advanced nursing Volume: 59 ISSN: 0309-2402 ISO Abbreviation: J Adv Nurs Publication Date: 2007 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-07-19 Completed Date: 2007-12-12 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7609811 Medline TA: J Adv Nurs Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 352-60 Citation Subset: IM; N |
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The University of Tennessee College of Nursing, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. jwitucki@utk.edu |
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Adaptation, Psychological Aged Aged, 80 and over Caregivers / psychology* Dementia / nursing* Humans Male Professional-Family Relations* Psychological Theory Social Support* Spouses / psychology* United States |
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