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Flourishing of the self while caregiving for a person with Dementia
— a case study of education, counseling, and psychosocial support via email | | Author(s) | Steven R Sabat |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 10, no 1, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 81-97 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Wives as carers ; Self esteem ; Stress ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Case studies ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | This three-year, longitudinal case study charts the dynamic experience of an elderly woman caring for her 83-year-old husband who was diagnosed with dementia. Frequent email communication was the main source of education, counselling and psychosocial support provided to her. She initially sought help for feelings of helplessness, frustration, low self-esteem and great stress. Over the course of the study she developed an understanding of her husband's intact memory making abilities and selfhood, his subjective experience and point of view, and effective communication strategies. At the same time she experienced a flourishing of the self, despite the fact that her husband was placed in a nursing home approximately seven months after the association with the author began. The carer's experience is discussed in terms of Social Construction Theory and the idea of Locus of Control (LOC). (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110526009 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: P6:SNW: DPA: QNH: IT: 69P: 3J |
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