Repercussions of the role of carer in the leisure activities of informal caregivers’s dependent elder

Abstract

The responsibility for caring brings transformations in the caregivers’s daily lives.Opposing everyday life tasks, which result in both physical and emotional stress, leisure activitiesallow individual recovery as well as social and personal development. The aim of this study was toidentify among the informal caregivers, who take care of dependent elders in the geriatric’s wardat Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual, which their leisure activities are and the factors whichaffect their accomplishment. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzedby the use of the Content Analysis Method. The quantitative variables were described through simplefrequency. As a result, it could be noticed that most of the interviewed caregivers decreased bothquantity and frequency of their leisure activities due to their responsibilities in assisting dependentelders. Furthermore caregivers mentioned hospitalization and emotional aspects as factors thataffected those activities. Therefore, through the impact observed in the caregiver´s leisure