Stroke caregivers happiest when they tend to their own needs too

By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People taking care of a family member who's had a stroke are happier when they maintain control of their own lives and continue to enjoy their interests and hobbies, according to new Canadian research. "In the caregiving field, a lot of the studies have focused on more negative outcomes, like burden or depression and things like that, but when you actually speak with family caregivers they say, 'You know, it's not all that bad,'" Jill Cameron told Reuters Health. Cameron, who led the new study, is a researcher in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Toronto. "There are some very good aspects to helping your family member and providing care, so we wanted to do a study that tried to emphasize some of the positive things and then try to understand what the factors that contributed to caregivers really being happy in the caregiving role are," Cameron said.



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