Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common and common causes of dementia and a chronic, complex, and progressive neurological disorder. As family caregiver’s play an all-encompassing role in Alzheimer's elderly care, resilient learning gives them the opportunity to better understand and respond appropriately in challenging situations. Due to the importance of the subject and the existence of few studies in this field, the present study was carried out. This study is a overview study that focuses on the effect of resilient interventions on the family mental health of elderly people with Alzheimer's disease from 1995 to the end of 2016. Using keyword search in the title or abstract of the articles in the Magiran, SID, Medlib, Iranmedex databases for Farsi language studies and full-text articles in English at Produce Elsevier, Ovid, Pubmed, Science Direct sites using the following keywords were searched in the title of the article. Persian words including mental health, family caregivers, Alzheimer's disease, and resilient. These keywords in English include mental health, Family caregivers, Alzheimer’s disease, Resilient, with every single word aging, elder, ageing, older people elderly. After searching the available databases with proper keywords in both Farsi and English, 54 articles were obtained without time limit. Of these, 11 articles with the most relevance to our goals were selected and examined.
The results showed; the pressure from nursing care affects all physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and quality of life of family caregivers, and the pressure of care severely affects caregivers' mental health. Therefore, the need to intervene to reduce care pressure and provide resilience education to family caregivers improve the quality of care for the elderly with Alzheimer's.
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پرستاری Received: 2016/11/2 | Accepted: 2017/02/24 | Published: 2017/07/5