Background And Objectives: The common and unique psychosocial stressors and adaptive coping strategies of people with young-onset dementia (PWDs) and their caregivers (CGs) are poorly understood. This meta-synthesis used the stress and coping framework to integrate and organize qualitative data on the common and unique psychosocial stressors and adaptive coping strategies employed by PWDs and CGs after a diagnosis of young-onset dementia (YOD).
Research Design And Methods: Five electronic databases were searched for qualitative articles from inception to January 2020.
Life-threatening illness and the dying of a person presents a complex and particularly burdensome challenge for the person affected as well as for their relatives. This also applies to the professionals involved in caring and supporting the terminally ill patient. For this reason, palliative care has become a pioneer of a networked multi-professional and multi-perspective thinking and acting.
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