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try to have positive thinking pattern;

find a safe way to express their emptions;

learn to know when they need a rest

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humor- pretend that she doesn't want to say instead of admiting that she forgets

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humor- pretend that she doesn't want to say instead of admiting that she forgets

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Self-Forgiveness: Perceive their parent with Alzheimer's disease as poorer as their baaic living skills dissipates gradually as the disease deteriorates

Humor: Make use of a humorous tone to communicate with mom

Meaning Making: Music therapy

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Problem focused coping:doctor and social services provide suggestion and take care them

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Problem focused coping:doctor and social services provide suggestion and take care them

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Meaning making: she can walk is ok, did not worry too much

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social support: to find professional resources, and let patients to participate in activities to improve the emotions and brain functions.

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social support/coping, day care centre, ask for professionals

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problem-foucsed coping: stay with patient in case they lost.

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problem-foucsed coping: stay with patient in case they lost.

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Meaning making: letting them participate in activities to help them gain sense of achievement

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emotional focus coping

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humor

social support

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humor, social support,self-forgiveness

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emotional focus coping

meaning making

problem focus coping

social aspects of coping

humor

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Problem-Focused Coping:ask advice from the profession.

Emotion-Focused Avoidance Coping

Humor

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Problem focused strategy: holding hands, monitoring all the time, seeing doctors, take old ppl to care centers.

Meaning making

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1. Problem-focused coping (the doctor looked for solutions for the disease)

2. Social aspects of coping (nursing home, the daughter, the spouse)

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communicate with her mother with patient tone

problem-focused coping: make the older people cook for themselves to gain the achievement and sense of control

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Social aspects of coping

Problem focus coping

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meaning making and emotional coping：Keeping the patient's activity level high and giving them a high level of emotional support.

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social aspects coping

fellowship

self- forgiveness

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2. problem-focus

3. emotion-focus

4. support-seeking

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Humor

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Humor

Meaning making coping

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1. have a regular doctor appointment

2. Stay with the patient all the time and take care of them

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support seeking coping

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humor, self-forgiveness

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social aspects of coping

emotion focus coping

problem focused coping

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support seeking

meaning making

humor

self- forgiveness

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Problem focused coping: taking the elder to the doctor

Emotion focused coping

Humor

Meaning making coping

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Humor

Problem solving focused

Meaning making

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Support seeking

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Problem-focused coping:

Advice from doctors professional in Alzheimer’s disease;

Efficient actions to reduce patient‘s irritation;

Sent patients to care centers.

Emotion-focused coping:

In order not to be sad, avoid thinking about how long the patient will live

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Meaning making

Motivational approach

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Care center offers help to take care of the patients, so that their families can deal with their own affairs and take a rest.

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Problem-focused coping: seek help from professionalism (Alzheimer’s disease association, doctor)
Emotional-focused coping: the daughter avoid to think how long her mum can stay with her.

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Problem solving coping for caregivers, Day care centre for taking care of the elders in daytime.

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Looking for professional suggestions of how to deal with difficult issues;
Trying to express their emotions and talking to someone professional like counselor;
Recoding something with the patient especially positive events;
Looking for some social support;

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Meaning making
Coping by infusing meaning in situations- spending time and taking care of parent to rebate their love

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Accommodation and humor， problem focused coping change to emotion-focused coping. And look for social support.

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social aspects of coping:
son brings his father to day center center which can help on slower the condition become worse and make his father fell better.

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husband: humor (tells jokes on how he keeps his wife get lost)
son: support seeking (find some daycare center to take care of his father)

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Cutie 81’s couple
Type of coping strategies :
Social aspect of coping :giving support ,takecare her daily life with love
Humor : kidding with his wife like “i dont tell u

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problem-focused coping & social aspects of coping：2 professinal community
emotion-focused coping：distraction and singong
accommodation：answer her mother even though she doesn't understand.

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Self-forgiveness: I don’t think being forgetful is a guilt.
Social support seeking: receive professional support from some organizations.
Humor: pretend that I remember something but I just do not tell you.

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Mostly due to the irreversibility of the condition, emotion focused coping. Problem focused coping to some extent when they try to figure out what will make their and the patients' daily functioning less uncomfortable

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Seeking social support

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The caregivers look for social resources provided by the government/ community, for example day care centre.
Such that care givers can take a rest and probably get to know other caregivers with similar situations to provide emotional support to each other.

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Accompanying - to restaurant and spending time tgt although the patients may not recognize themselves

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social support, use of humor like mr. Chow

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Problem focused coping
Emotion focused  coping
social support from family and professional centers

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Humor

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Listening and giving response even if the caregiver doesn’t understand what her parent is talking about

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Problem solving coping

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The centre used music therapy to help the patient to found their sense of achievement. And they also allow the patients to do what they good at e.g cooking

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Social support from different family members, rotate to take care of the patient 

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Social support from different family members, rotate to take care of the patient 

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Husband: Humor
Son:seeking professional support

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Play the instruments to help them finding achievability

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Husband - humor
Daughter - not to think about it
Son - social support to seek help from care centre

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1. Husband: Humor-since he is the caregiver. Try to use jokes for his wife' symptoms(eg. holding hands)
2. Daughter- Try to give emotional support to her mom.

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husband: problem solving coping
son: problem solving coping
daughter: problem solving coping and emotional coping

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The daugther seems to use avoidance coping

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The daugther seems to use avoidance coping

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Humor
Social Support

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Son：finding professional support
Daughter：emotional support
Husband：using humour attitude to face it

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1.Humor
2. Social support
3. Forgetting

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In the first case, for the husband he coped using humor

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In the first case, for the husband he coped using humor

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Social support( governmental social group), emotion support (family  support)

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Social support( governmental social group), emotion support (family  support)

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#1 humour
#2 support of care centre
#3 avoid thinking about it

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son: problem focused
Daughter: emotional focused

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1. Husband (carer) uses humour to cope - jokes about wife’s symptoms
2. Husband (patient) music therapy - sense of achievement and competence
3. Daughter (carer) - “dont want to think about it” - is it denial of the problem?

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1. Husband: Humor?
2. Son: get professional support
3. Daughter : work harder?