Enhancing the Well-Being of Family Caregivers to Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

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Abstract
This article includes a description of findings from a naturalistic study of the impact of caregiving on the lives of people caring for a relative with Alzheimer's disease. The study focused on caregivers' strengths and the ways that they maintained and enhanced their well-being. Findings indicate that caregivers experience their situation in widely divergent ways. Caregivers are able to enhance their well-being by Laking care of their own health and by the use of .active and cognitive coping strategies, social support, and respite. The implications of the Elndings for social work practice and social policy are discussed.

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