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"What Will Come Will Come": The Journey of Adjustment and Acceptance on the Path of Dementia Care Among Vietnamese Family Caregivers

In this article, we explore the psychological process through which Vietnamese family caregivers adjust to their role as primary caregivers for their relatives with dementia. The study adopted a constructivist grounded theory approach to collect data with 30 face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with 20 self-identified primary caregivers of older adults with dementia in Vietnam. The core adjustment process, consisting of four stages (Experience, Acknowledgment, Experiment, and Acceptance [EAEA]), to caregiving role emerged from the data.

Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:59