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Types of family caregiving and daily experiences in midlife and late adulthood
— the moderating influences of marital status and age | | Author(s) | Jen D Wong, Yetunde Shobo |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 39, no 6, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Sage, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 719-740 |
| Source | http://journals.sagepub.com/roa |
| Keywords | Family care ; Physical disabilities ; Mental disability ; Ill health ; Life span ; Middle aged ; Ageing process ; Parents as carers ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Spouses as carers ; Stress. |
| Annotation | Guided by the life course perspective, this study contributes to the family caregiving, ageing and disability literature by examining the daily experiences of three types of family caregivers in midlife and late adulthood. A sample of 162 caregivers from the National Survey of Midlife in the United States study completed interviews, questionnaires and a Daily Diary Study. Multilevel models showed the patterns of daily time use did not differ by caregiver types. Caregivers of sons/daughters with developmental disabilities (DD) experienced more daily stressors than caregivers of parents with health conditions (HC) and caregivers of spouses with HC. Unmarried caregivers of sons/daughters with DD reported spending more time on daily leisure activities and exhibited greater daily stressor exposure than other family caregivers. Age did not moderate the associations between caregiver types and daily experiences. Findings highlight the important consideration of the caregivers' characteristics to better determine the quality of their daily experiences in midlife and late adulthood. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728238 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: BN: E7: CH: BG6: SE: BG: P6:SR: P6:SS: P6:SN: QNH |
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