Trained nurses may provide interventions promoting a sense of relatedness with other (informal) carers thereby providing confidence, will and strength for caregivers to continue caregiving [ 17].
Table 2 presents a sample breakdown of the number of caregivers by type of care (within the household or elsewhere), and temporal sequence of care (start caregiving, continue caregiving or stop caregiving).
However, these three variables are highly correlated, as shown in Table 8, where it can also be seen that individuals who continue caregiving mostly do so at home.
It looks like Joanne's only options are: a) to continue caregiving at home until she exhausts herself and possibly dies first, b) to impoverish herself by paying for Gerald's residence in a care center until their savings are exhausted, or c) to divorce him and let him go on Medicaid".
This context reflected the commitment of the participants' to continue caregiving and maintaining a connection with their family member residing in a LTC facility.
In the second study, a grounded theory study of hope in 17 family caregivers of persons with dementia living in the community [ 3], participants described psychologically leaning on their hope every day to deal with their caregiving issues and to continue caregiving.
In such cases, expectations of continued finiancial support recognize and stabilize a parent's continued caregiving role in a child's life.
The omitted categories are "non-caregiving", "continue not caregiving" and "zero hours" in Models 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
Carers may also struggle to continue the caregiving role, which has repercussions for patient and health service provision.
However, non-working caregivers did not tend to continue high-intensity caregiving for more than three years because current high-intensity caregiving was not associated with the continuation of caregiving when high-intensity caregiving provided during the previous period was included in the regression.
