Experience of Caregivers for Older Adults in Rural Ethiopia: Challenges and Available Social Support for Family Caregivers in Co-Residential Living Arrangement.

Family and kinship care is a common way of caring for older adults, particularly in rural Ethiopia, where institutional care arrangements are nonexistent. Moreover, the majority of studies on family caregivers of older adults were conducted in western cultures, which makes it difficult to understand family caregivers in the Ethiopian context. This study aims at exploring the experience of family caregivers for older adults in a co-residential setting.

Experience of Rural Family Caregivers for Older Adults in Co-Residential Family Care Arrangements in Central Ethiopia: Motives of Family Caregivers in Reciprocal Relationship.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the experience of rural family caregivers' motive to care for older adults in rural Ethiopia.

Methods: We used a descriptive phenomenological study method. Data from semi-structured interviews with purposively sampled caregivers were inductively coded and developed into themes.

Circumstances Precipitating Rural Older Adults for Co-Residential Family Care Arrangements in Central Ethiopia.

This study aims to explore circumstances that precipitate rural older adults for co-residential family care arrangements employing a phenomenological study method. Data from in-depth interviews with 12 rural older adults were inductively coded and developed into themes. Physical limitations and health problems, separation and divorce, death of a spouse, economic problem, neglect, inheritance dispute, and inaccessible locations are the circumstances that precipitate older adults to give up their independent living and start living with their children in the study area.