Latar belakang: Penelitian ini mengkaji strategi koping caregiver dalam merawat lansia dengan demensia. Caregiver yang merawat lansia demensia rentan mengalami stres dan beban, sehingga perlu diidentifikasi strategi koping yang mereka gunakan untuk mengurangi beban dan menghindari pengabaian perawatan. Metode: Metode yang digunakan adalah literature review dengan pencarian sistematis pada database Google Scholar, Pubmed dan Science Direct menggunakan kata kunci terkait. Kriteria artikel meliputi publikasi 5 tahun terakhir (2019-2024), berbahasa Indonesia atau Inggris, full text, dan relevan dengan tujuan penelitian. Hasil: Dari 5 artikel yang dianalisis, ditemukan bahwa mayoritas caregiver adalah perempuan. Strategi koping yang cenderung digunakan adalah problem focused coping dan emotional focused coping. Beberapa caregiver juga menggunakan koping maladaptif. Namun, tidak ditemukan penggunaan cognitive focused coping. Kesimpulan: caregiver lansia demensia memiliki berbagai strategi koping untuk menghadapi tekanan, dengan kecenderungan menggunakan problem focused coping dan emotional focused coping. Penelitian lebih lanjut diperlukan untuk mengkaji penggunaan cognitive focused coping yang tidak ditemukan dalam studi ini. Kata Kunci: Strategi Koping, Caregiver, Demensia

Background. This study examines caregiver coping strategies in caring for the elderly with dementia. Caregivers who care for elderly patients with dementia are vulnerable to stress and burden, hence the need to identify coping strategies they use to reduce the burden and avoid neglecting care. The purpose of this study was to identify the coping strategies of caregivers in caring for the elderly with dementia. Method. This study employed a literature review with a systematic search on Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Science Direct databases using related keywords. Article criteria include publications from the last five years (2019-2024) in Indonesian or English, full text, and relevant to the research objectives. Results. Findings from the analysis of 5 articles indicated that the majority of caregivers are female. Coping strategies tend to include problem-focused coping and emotional-focused coping. Some caregivers also applied maladaptive coping. However, the use of cognitive-focused coping was not found. Conclusion. Caregivers of elderly patients with dementia have various coping strategies to deal with pressure, with a tendency to use problem-focused coping and emotional-focused coping. Further research is needed to examine the use of cognitive-focused coping, which was not found in this study. Keywords: Coping Strategies, Caregiver, Dementia