Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to report the development process of the scale for measuring for home care of male caregiver of dementia. First, male caregiver's coping in precedence literatures reporting male caregivers of dementia applies with the pre-existing coping scale. Add questionnaire survey was given to 9 caregivers. And Experts in the field, consisting of university associate professors and specialists of dementia, established the content validity of the scale. Second, the category based on the main subject of the sentences. Each coping of sentences in a category was classified into 21 concepts, which form patients' roles, and the sentences were then organized into 19 items for the primary questionnaire. Finally, the items were refined to represent the concepts, and carefully selected. Finally, the scale for measuring for home care of male caregiver of elderly of dementia, which consist of 21 items, was developed