Family Caregiver’s Depression, Confidence, Satisfaction, and Burden Regarding End-of-Life Home Care for People With End-Stage Dementia

Gizell Green, Inbal Halevi Hochwald, Zorian Radomyslsky, Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot

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Abstract

To detect differences between two care services units: regarding family-caregiver (FC) depression, perceived-burden and confidence in the provision of care to people with end-stage dementia (PWESD); examine predictors such as FC age, depression, confidence in the provision of care to PWESD and satisfaction with the community-home-care service to burden; and explore a mediation model. The participants were 139 FC, caring for PWESD living at home. The questionnaire was composed of FC background characteristics, perceived-burden, satisfaction with the community-home-care services, depression, and confidence in the provision of care to the PWESD. HCUs’ FC felt significantly more burdened than HHUs’ FC. Furthermore, satisfaction with the community-home-care services mediated the relationship between FC confidence in the provision of care to the PWESD and FC burden. The study results may affect the development of end-of-life care policies and services which meet the needs of PWESD and their FC.

Original languageEnglish
JournalOmega: Journal of Death and Dying
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2022

Keywords

  • confidence in the provision of care
  • depression
  • end-stage dementia
  • family caregivers
  • palliative homecare
  • perceived burden
  • satisfaction with the health unit’s support

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