Process of a Caregiver Creating a New Life with an Elderly Person Soon After Hospital Discharge: Development of a Theory on the Life Experiences of Caregiving Using Qualitative Analysis

对照顾病人的家庭照顾者的支持对于促进病人在家中的护理至关重要。尤其是在从医院到家庭护理的过渡时期，家庭照顾者经历的困难最多。本研究的目的是从家庭照顾者的角度描述和构建一个理论，即照顾者如何在出院后根据患者的日常生活、思想和活动与患者一起创造新的生活。这是一项用扎根理论指导数据收集和分析的定性研究。“家庭照顾者”被定义为“与患者生活在一起的家庭成员，并且首次成为65岁或65岁以上患者出院后回家的主要照顾者”。结果：22名出院后不到一年的家庭照顾者参与了这项研究。结果表明，家庭照顾者意识到与患者一起生活的过程是照顾者将照顾作为其生活的一部分。发现自己的生命和病人的生命“成为核心范畴。照顾者的生活是与病人一起生活的生活必须变得平凡。因此，通过寻找除了自己之外不为别人而存在的自我，家庭照顾者被认为实现了自己的生活。

Support for a family caregiver who cares for a patient is essential to promoting the patient's care at home. In particular, during in the transition period from hospital to home care, that a family caregiver experiences the most difficulties.The purpose of this study was to describe and construct a theory from the perspective of family caregivers on how the caregivers create new lives with patients after hospital discharge based on their daily lives, thoughts and activities. It was a qualitative study that used grounded theory to guide data collection and analysis. A “family caregiver" was defined as a “family member who lives with the patient and who for the first time is the principal person giving primary care for the first time to a patient 65 years or older returning to home after discharge from a medical institution such as a hospital."Results: Twenty-two family caregivers who had their patient at home less than one year after hospital discharge participated in this study. The results indicated that the process by which family caregivers realized that a life with the patient is one in which the caregiver makes caregiving a part of his/her life. Being find one's life and patient's life" emerged as the core category.A life for a caregiver was one in which living with the patient had to become ordinary. Therefore, by finding the self who existed for no one else but oneself, family caregivers were thought to have realized their own lives.