- Title
- Self-management of dementia by family carers: a scoping review
- Creator
- Shehadeh, Anas; Hunter, Sharyn; Jeong, Sarah
- Relation
- Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Vol. 7, Issue January-December 2021
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211016694
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Family carers increasingly take on the responsibility of self-management of dementia as the condition progresses. However, research on this topic is scarce. This scoping review aimed to identify the key characteristics related to self-management of dementia by carers including its components, theoretical/conceptual frameworks that underpinned these components and measurements. A scoping review was conducted in 8 databases and 16 publications met the inclusion criteria. Twenty-two components were identified and grouped into two categories: activities and carer characteristics and skills. The identified theoretical/conceptual frameworks were numerous and varied as were the measures. There was a little consistency of the key characteristics of self-management of dementia by carers. The findings assist carers and healthcare providers to understand the components involved in self-managing dementia which will guide the development and delivery of self-management support interventions for carers. Further research is required to validate these findings and to develop specialized conceptual frameworks and measures.
- Subject
- self-management; concept clarification; dementia; family caregiving; literature review
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1424487
- Identifier
- uon:38087
- Identifier
- ISSN:2333-7214
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Language
- eng
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