Caregivers’ Experiences: Psychosocial Problem of the Elderly in Nursing Home-A Qualitative Study
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_38How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- caregivers’ experience; psychosocial problem; elderly
- Abstract
Background: Psychosocial problems are one of the mental health disorders where every change in a person's life that is psychological or social has an influence and can have a large enough potential to become a factor in mental disorders or vice versa.
Aim: To describe caregivers’ experience with the psychosocial problem in older adults at Panti Wening Wardoyo Ungaran.
Methods: Descriptive quantitative is used as the research design with a phenomenology approach describing the caregivers' experiences of the psychosocial problem at Panti Wening Wardoyo Ungaran.
Results: The results of this study are for understanding caregivers caring for the elderly with psychosocial problems, there are 7 themes, namely training experience, depression, family problems, loss, trauma, withdrawal and anger, for how to care for caregivers there are 3 themes, namely communication, social activities and referrals to health services. Furthermore, the obstacles experienced by caregivers have 1 theme, namely lack of understanding, and expectations of caregivers, there is 1 theme, namely being social, so for this study there are 12 themes in total.
Conclusion: The Nursing Home is expected to facilitate caregivers to get training about mental health in elderly. Can be concluded that the accuracy of measuring body weight depends on gender.
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TY - CONF AU - Tri Nurhidayati AU - Sheila Destika Rachmawati AU - Ah Yusuf AU - Eni Hidayati AU - Mohammad Fatkul Mubin PY - 2023 DA - 2023/04/19 TI - Caregivers’ Experiences: Psychosocial Problem of the Elderly in Nursing Home-A Qualitative Study BT - Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium 2022 on Health Sciences (LSISHS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 334 EP - 340 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_38 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_38 ID - Nurhidayati2023 ER -