The relationship at the heart of the experience of daughter caregivers of a parent with dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Background: Parents with dementia require emotional, physical, psychological and financial support from their child caregivers to continue living at home. Daughter caregivers have been shown to be more involved in self-care and household tasks and to experience higher levels of distress than son caregivers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the experience of daughter caregivers who provide informal care for a parent with dementia living in their own home.