title: [A family caregiver's experience of care-giving on her own: "face it", "accept it", "deal with it" and "let it go"].
abstract: "Aging in place" has become one of the important policies promoting long-term care in the community. In the aging societies of today, the need for family caregivers to care for the elderly has increased. How one woman coped with shouldering the heavy burden of providing long-term family care alone were the main interests of this case study. From interviewing the subject it was discovered that her attitude to the labor of love that is care-giving was the same as the four great vows for handling problems that Master Sheng Yen proposes: "face it", "accept it", "deal with it", and "let it go". Health professionals could help family caregivers to take things more easily and enter the state of "letting it go" by deeply understanding the perception of the caregiver, providing useful information, and encouraging the caregiver to make use of resources that are available for assistance.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chii-Jun
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Chiou
authors.forename: Chi-Chun
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chin
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged