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| Effects of caregiving, gender and race on the health, mutuality, and social supports of older couples | | Author(s) | Sharon M Wallsten |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 12, no 1, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 90-111 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Ethnic groups ; Health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Results are presented of cross-sectional data from the first year of the Duke School of Nursing Caregiver/Care-Receiver Study of older people aged 70 and over. 118 caregiving couples and 116 comparison couples are included. Spousal older caregivers are in poorer physical health than non-caregivers, but have no greater numbers of social supports to help them in the caregiving role. Also, African Americans are in poorer physical health than Caucasians, yet, as caregivers, they have no greater numbers of social supports than Caucasian caregivers. Although females have more social supports than males, female caregivers have more negative feelings about their husbands than male caregivers have about their wives. Males and African Americans are in potentially more severe caregiving situations than their female and Caucasian counterparts. Results of the study are compared to the author's 1998 study which found that African Americans and males had more favourable psychological indicators of stress. The two studies complement each other, but open the question of response bias as a factor. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000515005 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: TK: CC: CH: 3J: 7T |
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