This is a 3-arm controlled trial. The participants are caregivers of the community-dwelling dependent older adults. There will be around 105 participants to be recruited and randomly allocated into 3 groups. Caregiving training group will receive a evidence-based caregiving training delivered via home visit of community nurse. Caregiving training plus family resilience group will additionally receive a structured family resilience intervetion. Control group will receive usual community health care service by nurses. The primary outcomes are caregiving ability, family resilience and psychological distress, and the secondary outcomes are caregiving burden, resilience, coping, social support, and quality of life the caregivers and the older adults. The measurement will be conducted four times at baseline, after, 1-month and 3-month after intervention.
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family resilience
Timeframe: There will be 4 measurements, before, immediately after and,1-month, 3-month after the intervention.
psychological distress
Timeframe: There will be 4 measurements, before, immediately after,1-month, and 3-month after the intervention.
caregiving ability
Timeframe: There will be 4 measurements, before, immediately after,1-month, and 3-month after the intervention.