Resiliency in Family Caregivers

In Their Own Words: How Family Carers of People with Dementia Understand Resilience

“…For them, resilience in one situation was not a guarantee of resilience in another and resilience now was not a guarantee of resilience in the future. Although this is consistent with much of the literature on childhood resilience, it has not been reflected in the measurement, operationalization, or description of resilience in the literature on family carers of people with dementia, e.g., [ 25 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 35 , 37 ], in which carers have frequently been labelled as either resilient or not. It was clear that carers in the current study also considered it possible to be both resilient and distressed.…”

“…Also noticeably absent from this literature are the voices of carers themselves. To our knowledge, only three resilience studies have interviewed people caring for family members with dementia [ 25 , 35 , 36 ], but neither asked carers whether they considered themselves resilient. Similarly, although Joling and colleagues [ 37 ] included carers on an expert panel in a Delphi study that sought to define resilience in people caring for family members with dementia, they were only asked about resilience generally, not about their own resilience or the factors that contributed to it.…”

Informal caregivers’ experiences of caring for people receiving dialysis: A mixed‐methods systematic review

“…These coping strategies can be identified as resilience (Ross et al . ), a term that refers to the ability of individuals and groups to respond in a positive manner to a challenging situation through a complex process of adaptation and adjustment (Howe et al . ; Aburn et al .…”

“…It was apparent that the caregivers' emerging confidence and strength contributed to their ability to cope with the burden of caregiving. These coping strategies can be identified as resilience (Ross et al 2003), a term that refers to the ability of individuals and groups to respond in a positive manner to a challenging situation through a complex process of adaptation and adjustment (Howe et al 2012;Aburn et al 2016). Resilience has been studied in caregivers of stroke survivor and patients with dementia (Sophie et al 2014;Petriwskyj et al 2016).…”

Resilience in Caregivers of Partners With Young Onset Dementia: A Concept Analysis

“…Wilks and Croom (2008) found a social support network correlated strongly with resilience. The caregiver utilizes the social support system for respite but even more importantly as a confidant(s) with whom the caregiver can confide (Ross, Holliman, & Dixon, 2008). Caregivers who perceive more social support demonstrate higher resilience (Wilks, 2009).…”