Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Correspondence: oliver. Family caregivers can be overwhelmed by the care they provide within the family without external support. Ten caregivers of Turkish origin who were responsible for family members living with dementia were interviewed using problem-centered interviews. We found that the target group has very heterogeneous self-management competencies, which are based, on the one hand, on existing supportive resources and, on the other hand, on diverse care-specific, psychosocial and life-world challenges in intrafamily care that have not been overcome.
Self-management skills in family caregivers are influenced by a complex interplay of both available resources that support these skills and challenging caregiving situations. This dynamic combination of resources and challenges results in varying levels of self-management ability among family caregivers.
Strengthening resources can help caregivers to meet the challenges resulting from caregiving and to expand their self-management competencies. There is great need for action in promoting self-management skills among Turkish caregivers of people living with dementia in home care. Interventions to promote self-management skills must take into account the individual resources of those affected as well as their social and cultural diversity. In , People of Turkish origin represent the largest group within this population, comprising a total of about 3 million [ 2 ].
In the future, not only will the proportion of people with a history of migration increase significantly [ 3 ], but so will the proportion of immigrant older people. Migrants who came to Germany as part of the recruitment agreements in , the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey signed a recruitment agreement that established the framework for the organized recruitment and employment of Turkish workers in Germany, significantly impacting cross-border labor mobility during that era in the s are now reaching an age at which age-related chronic diseases and the need for long-term care become more frequent [ 4 ].
Dementia is one of the most common and severe neurodegenerative diseases in old age [ 5 ]. As a result of the progressive impairment of brain functions and the associated loss of autonomy, dementia and dementia-related diseases represent one of the main causes for needing long-term care [ 6 ]. Given the changing age structure of the population due to demographic changes and the increasing number of chronically ill people, an increase in the need for long-term care is also to be expected in the population with a migration background in the coming years [ 7 ].
