The psychological experience of family carers of dependent elderly people - A field study through the interview and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory2-

Abstract

The situation of helping an elderly parent certainly requires a psychological echo in the life of the adult given what it entails as representations interwoven between social and religious duty, injunctions, and the burden of care for elderly parents; this duality shared between them in the help constitutes a psychological, relational, and social situation. Moreover, we cannot in any case rule out one of the partners given the permanent dynamic that alleges this relationship. Our study demonstrates the nature of the help that the elderly parent receives from his adult son, and the resonance of this help on the adult's experience by what it generates anxiety, depression, feelings of guilt and esteem. of itself, through the clinical method which was applied to 3 cases of adults helping their elderly parents, the MMPI2 test, the interview with a unified guide for the three cases; and the results we collected are as follows;

• The helping nature of an elderly parent in the family focuses on health care، as well as psychological and social assistance، while the financial assistance changes depending on the parent if he retires or not
• The psychological experience of an adult who is caring for an elderly parent is characterized by anxiety، depression، sense of guilt، and low self-esteem.
• The psychological profile of an adult who is caring for an aging parent is in the normal order.