Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

The dementia is rapidly growing. This study is to develop evidence of the intervention program for family with demented elderly patients and to suggest the direction of future research.

The integrative literature review was applied for 20 years since 2000. We evaluated the extracted data through literature search. 11 papers were confirmed. The concepts of ‘quality of life’ and ‘satisfaction of life’, which were not included in the main search term, were important as a positive concept. Three researchers analyzed the results after discussing the contents of the final analysis.

In qualitative studies, the center for dementia care provided positive change in family such as opening mind to dementia, help each other, changing pattern of life, and changing for better life. The process of family resilience with in-home patient was analyzed as four stages of confrontation, challenge, integration, and sublimation. The type of family resilience was analyzed as positive meaning seeking, rational mutual cooperation, passive reality accepting, and external resource dependent. The adapted family's the main caregivers were spouses, had good health condition, social resources, and religion. In quantitative studies, the factors affecting adjustment of family were family resilience and support burden, and life satisfaction of family were family resilience.

This study provides the evidence of intervention program for family resilience with the demented elderly patients. Also, the result of this study suggests the future direction of the research.