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| Effect of giving care on caregivers' health | | Author(s) | Marie R Haug, Amasa B Ford, Kurt C Stange |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp 515-538 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Health [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Ill health ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This US longitudinal study of 121 caregivers of older people evaluates the change in their self-assessed mental and physical health over two years. During this time, the care recipients, drawn from a random sample of non-institutionalised urban-dwelling older people, showed increased need for help with personal and instrumental activities of daily living (ADLs and IADLs). Both the physical and mental health of the caregivers declined significantly during the study. Predictors of decline in physical health of the caregivers at the end of the study were poorer physical health at the start, the amount of help they provided, a decline in their own mental health, and an increase in the number of other people also available to provide care. In contrast, decline in caregivers' mental health at the end was predicted only by poorer mental health at the start, and by decline in physical health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990824239 A |
| Classmark | P6: CC: D: CH: 3J: 7T |
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