Abstract
To detect differences between two care services units: regarding family-caregiver (FC) depression, perceived-burden and confidence in the provision of care to people with end-stage dementia (PWESD); examine predictors such as FC age, depression, confidence in the provision of care to PWESD and satisfaction with the community-home-care service to burden; and explore a mediation model. The participants were 139 FC, caring for PWESD living at home. The questionnaire was composed of FC background characteristics, perceived-burden, satisfaction with the community-home-care services, depression, and confidence in the provision of care to the PWESD. HCUs’ FC felt significantly more burdened than HHUs’ FC. Furthermore, satisfaction with the community-home-care services mediated the relationship between FC confidence in the provision of care to the PWESD and FC burden. The study results may affect the development of end-of-life care policies and services which meet the needs of PWESD and their FC.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Omega: Journal of Death and Dying |
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| State | Accepted/In press - 1 Jan 2022 |
Keywords
- confidence in the provision of care
- depression
- end-stage dementia
- family caregivers
- palliative homecare
- perceived burden
- satisfaction with the health unit’s support
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Health(social science)
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
- Life-span and Life-course Studies