Family carers experiences of compassion for self, other and receiving compassion
Nuriye Kupeli, Claudia Cooper, Andrea Bruun, Laura Dillon, Pepsi Reilly, Nicola White, Elizabeth L Sampson · 2025
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Nuriye Kupeli and co-authors interview family carers of people with dementia about compassion in three directions: toward themselves, toward others, and received from others, in a 2025 study. Ten carers, mostly daughters and wives, described what helps compassion survive and what wears it down during months or years of care.
Keeping an identity beyond the caring role, drawing on warm memories, and feeling understood all helped. Sacrificing their own needs and carrying guilt or shame made compassion harder to sustain. The authors note that professionals often miss how the role itself blocks self-kindness, and they call for support programs designed to protect carers' compassion on all three fronts.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nuriye Kupeli, Claudia Cooper, Andrea Bruun, Laura Dillon, Pepsi Reilly, Nicola White, Elizabeth L Sampson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |