Caregiver Resilience in Dementia Support Systems
Summary
Caregiver resilience in dementia support systems refers to the capacity of family and informal carers to maintain or regain psychological and physical well-being despite the prolonged demands of caring for someone with dementia. This resilience emerges from a complex interplay of individual traits, social networks, community resources and formal services. Key protective factors include adaptive coping strategies, robust social support, meaningful engagement in self-care and access to culturally sensitive interventions. The global ageing population and rising dementia prevalence have underscored the importance of resilient caregiving models that not only alleviate burden but also enhance life satisfaction, mitigate mental health risks and foster sustainable care partnerships. Practical applications range from resilience-building programmes and peer support groups to policy measures that strengthen social services, all tailored to the cultural and contextual needs of diverse caregiver populations.
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Technical terms
Psychosocial resilience: The capacity to maintain or recover subjective well-being through adaptive emotional, cognitive and social processes.
Growth mixture modelling: A statistical approach for identifying distinct subgroups within longitudinal data based on trajectories of an outcome variable.
Resilience resources framework: An analytic model that organises individual, familial and community-level factors contributing to resilience into thematic categories.
References
- An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland. Frontiers in Public Health (2023).
- Exploring the Support Needs of Chinese Family Carers of People Living with Dementia in New Zealand during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Resilience Resources Framework Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2024).
- Towards conceptual convergence: A systematic review of psychological resilience in family caregivers of persons living with chronic neurological conditions. Health Expectations (2021).
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