Organization: An in-depth, unstructured interview was conducted, enabling participants to share significant moments after the decease of the person they had taken care of and to share how they reconstruct their daily life. The eleven participants had been previously accompanied by an Integrated Continuous Care Team.
This study is based on a phenomenological methodology with an interpretive design embedded in the Interpretative Phenomenological Approach. Goal: This investigation started from the question: What is the post-caregivers’ experience in the reconstruction of their daily life? It aims to understand the post-caregivers' experience in the reconstruction of their daily life. Although the experience of caring has been widely explored, little is known about the experience of the post-caregiver, the reconstruction of their daily life is essential to understand the resumption of life of the family’s post-caregiver. Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, PortugalĬentro de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento em Enfermagem de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, PortugalĬontextualization/Justification: Thinking about the post-family caregiver is recognizing the complexity inherent to the trajectory of care.