TY - JOUR
T1 - Het delen van mantelzorg
T2 - wat zijn de overwegingen?
AU - Maathuis, Ivo J.H.
AU - Bles, Ruth M.
AU - van Loon, Moniek A.M.
AU - Moor, Nienke J.A.
AU - Hamers, Kim
AU - Mohammadi, Masi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Vilans. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/2/9
Y1 - 2022/2/9
N2 - Due to social, political, and demographic developments in Dutch healthcare, the pressure on informal carers of vulnerable, senior citizens living at home continues to increase. To relieve this pressure, people in the senior citizens’ social network are looking for ways to share care tasks with others. However, many informal caregivers seem to experience a threshold in this respect.This pilot study focuses on understanding the considerations involved in sharing caregiving tasks with others. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six informal caregivers of single, senior citizens living at home. This study shows that these considerations are characterised by a relationship between informal caregivers’ workload, their shyness to ask others for help, and the perception of care recipients’ demand, combined with informal caregivers’ natural inclination to do it themselves. Feelings of being responsible for the care and behaviour of care recipients, and the choices that must be made for them seem to play an additional role. To develop adequate solutions that lead to sharing informal care with others, and relieving the pressure on informal caregivers, more insight into the (personal) mechanisms behind this sense of responsibility seems necessary.
AB - Due to social, political, and demographic developments in Dutch healthcare, the pressure on informal carers of vulnerable, senior citizens living at home continues to increase. To relieve this pressure, people in the senior citizens’ social network are looking for ways to share care tasks with others. However, many informal caregivers seem to experience a threshold in this respect.This pilot study focuses on understanding the considerations involved in sharing caregiving tasks with others. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six informal caregivers of single, senior citizens living at home. This study shows that these considerations are characterised by a relationship between informal caregivers’ workload, their shyness to ask others for help, and the perception of care recipients’ demand, combined with informal caregivers’ natural inclination to do it themselves. Feelings of being responsible for the care and behaviour of care recipients, and the choices that must be made for them seem to play an additional role. To develop adequate solutions that lead to sharing informal care with others, and relieving the pressure on informal caregivers, more insight into the (personal) mechanisms behind this sense of responsibility seems necessary.
KW - Ageing in place
KW - Caregiver burden
KW - Caregivers' judgements
KW - Informal caregiving
KW - Sharing care work
KW - Caregivers
KW - Patient Care
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Delivery of Health Care
KW - Humans
KW - Emotions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124646777&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.36613/tgg.1875-6832/2022.01.02
DO - 10.36613/tgg.1875-6832/2022.01.02
M3 - Tijdschriftartikel
C2 - 36408654
AN - SCOPUS:85124646777
SN - 0167-9228
VL - 53
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie
JF - Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie
IS - 1
ER -