Li-Yu Tang
Dementia Service group Sanipax Medico-educational Foundation
Ping-Keung Yip
Department of Neurology National Taiwan University Hospital
Liang-Chuan Chan
Pi-Jung Hsieh
Sanipax Medico-educational Foundation
Taking care of a demented elderly has great impact to family system. Most of the caregivers do not have enough knowledge about dementia and the skills of caring demented people. Caregivers suffered from role conflict, overloading and negative emotions. Family caregivers need social support. Support group is an effective way to offer support. This article adopted Yalom’s therapeutic factors as a framework to explore the effect of support group for caregivers of demented elderly. The results indicate that universality、instillation of hope, imparting information, altruism, catharsis, group cohesion, development of social interaction techniques are therapeutic factors in support group for caregivers of demented elderly.
Keywords: demantia, caregiver, support group, therapeutic factor