Experience of Caregivers for Older Adults in Rural Ethiopia: Challenges and Available Social Support for Family Caregivers in Co-Residential Living Arrangement.

IF 2.1 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-26 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1177/23337214241273165
Kidus Yenealem Mefteh, Shambel Desale Gashaw, Tilahun Assefa Hailu, Seid Hassen Hussien
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Abstract

Family and kinship care is a common way of caring for older adults, particularly in rural Ethiopia, where institutional care arrangements are nonexistent. Moreover, the majority of studies on family caregivers of older adults were conducted in western cultures, which makes it difficult to understand family caregivers in the Ethiopian context. This study aims at exploring the experience of family caregivers for older adults in a co-residential setting. Specifically, it focuses on answering caregiving challenges and available social supports for family caregivers in a co-residential living arrangement. This study used a qualitative research method employing phenomenology to understand the lived experience of family caregivers for older adults in rural northwestern Ethiopia. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview with eight purposefully selected family caregivers of rural older adults. Regarding family caregivers's challenges and available social supports, four themes emerged from the collected data. These are economic challenges, the incongruence of older adult needs and caregiving capacity, work-caregiving conflict, work-social life conflict, and the presence of social support from different individuals and community-based institutions. In addition to strengthening caregiver support environments, it's critical to develop the capacity of family caregivers through training, economic support, and the integration of family caregivers with health extension workers.

埃塞俄比亚农村老年人照顾者的经验:同居生活安排中家庭照顾者面临的挑战和可用的社会支持。
家庭和亲属照护是照护老年人的一种常见方式,尤其是在埃塞俄比亚农村,因为那里没有机构照护安排。此外,大多数关于老年人家庭照顾者的研究都是在西方文化中进行的,因此很难理解埃塞俄比亚背景下的家庭照顾者。本研究旨在探讨老年人家庭照顾者在共同居住环境中的经验。具体来说,研究重点是回答家庭照顾者在同住生活安排中面临的照顾挑战和可用的社会支持。本研究采用现象学的定性研究方法,以了解埃塞俄比亚西北部农村地区老年人家庭照顾者的生活经历。研究人员通过半结构式访谈收集数据,访谈对象是特意挑选的八名农村老年人家庭照顾者。关于家庭照顾者面临的挑战和可用的社会支持,收集到的数据中出现了四个主题。它们分别是经济挑战、老年人需求与照顾能力的不协调、工作与照顾的冲突、工作与社会生活的冲突以及来自不同个人和社区机构的社会支持。除了加强护理人员的支持环境外,通过培训、经济支持以及将家庭护理人员与卫生推广人员相结合来发展家庭护理人员的能力也至关重要。
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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Medicine-Geriatrics and Gerontology
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
3.70%
发文量
119
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal where scholars from a variety of disciplines present their work focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging, and public health services and research related to aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics related to health services research in gerontology and geriatrics. GGM seeks to be one of the world’s premier Open Access outlets for gerontological academic research. As such, GGM does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers will be subjected to rigorous peer review but will be selected solely on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, GGM facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers.
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