How to stay motivated: A focus group study of Norwegian caregivers' experiences with community healthcare services to their parents with dementia.

Motivation to provide care is a significant predictor of informal caregiving among family caregivers of persons with dementia. Adequate support is an important source of help and relief to caregivers, but fragmentation of dementia care services is common and better ways of supporting these caregivers are needed. Knowledge of adult-child caregivers' motivation and how this motivation is influenced by community healthcare services is lacking.

Caring for home-dwelling parents with dementia: A qualitative study of adult-child caregivers' motivation.

Aim: To explore adult children's motivation in caregiving for their home-dwelling parents with dementia.

Design: Qualitative design with a phenomenological approach.

Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews with 21 adult sons and daughters who were caregivers for a parent with dementia.

Understanding informal caregivers' motivation from the perspective of self-determination theory: an integrative review.

Background: A long-term illness is stressful both for the person with the diagnosis and for his or her informal caregivers. Many people willingly assume the caregiving role, so it is important to understand why they stay in this role and how their motivation affects their health. Self-determination theory (SDT) is a theory of human motivation that has been successfully applied in human research domains.

How can web-based training facilitate a more carer friendly practice in community-based health and social care services in Norway? Staff experiences and implementation challenges.

It is a central feature of current Norwegian health and social care policy to see informal carers as active partners. However, research has revealed that carers often experience a lack of recognition by professionals. In 2010, the Norwegian Directorate of Health initiated a web-based competence-building programme (CBP) for health and social care practitioners aimed at facilitating collaboration with carers.