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- Title
Demansı Olan Birey ile Yaşamak: Olgubilim Çalışması.
- Authors
LÖK, Neslihan; GÜNBAYI, İlhan; BULDUKOĞLU, Kadriye
- Abstract
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the difficulties which the individuals experienced because of being in the position of care givers. Methods: The study is qualitative and planned in phenomenological pattern, as it aims to do and present a detailed research of the attendants' perspectives on taking care of the patients with dementia. Data set of ten patients with dementia were used in the study. Results: The data obtained from semi-structured interviews were examined under the title of conception of dementia, conception of providing healthcare for dementia, life before the healthcare, change in lives after healthcare, feelings of having a relative who had dementia, difficulties while providing healthcare, ways of coping with dementia, advice on coping with dementia for other healtcare providers, metaphors which are built about providing healthcare. Conclusion: Being in the position of care giver; whether or not it is related with personal specialities, the closeness of the person cared, being ready for this role (being woman), care giving restricts individual's life in a large scale and it causes him/her to do new arrangements. The main role advising the nurses who provide care, researchers, educational, therapeutic, and demented as required by the advocate role the individual dealing only thinking also of the needs of patients, not caregivers of dementia is necessary to provide holistic care for caregivers and individuals.
- Publication
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing / Psikiyatri Hemsireleri Dernegi, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
1309-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/phd.2015.54376