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Grandchild care and loneliness among older Europeans: Longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.
- Source :
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry; Aug2022, Vol. 37 Issue 8, p1-7, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- <bold>Objectives: </bold>Restricted knowledge exists with regard to the association between grandchild care and loneliness among older Europeans. Hence, our goal was to investigate the association between the onset of grandchild care and loneliness in different European regions and stratified by sex longitudinally.<bold>Methods/design: </bold>Longitudinal data were taken from waves 5 to 6 of the 'Survey of Health Ageing, and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE) (n = 83,416 observations). Loneliness was assessed using the established three-item version of the Revised UCLA Loneliness scale. Transitions into grandchild care (= onset of grandchild care) served as key independent variable. It was adjusted for several covariates in regression analysis. Linear FE regressions with cluster-robust standard errors were used to mitigate the challenge of unobserved heterogeneity.<bold>Results: </bold>Linear FE regressions showed that the onset of grandchild care was significantly associated with an increase in loneliness levels among women (but not men) in Southern Europe (β = 0.28, p = 0.01), whereas the onset of grandchild care was not significantly associated with changes in loneliness levels in both sexes in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and Israel.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Our study emphasized the association between the onset of grandchild care and increases in loneliness among women in Southern Europe. Efforts (e.g., respite services) are required to support this group to avoid loneliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EUROPEANS
FAMILIES
LONELINESS
AGING
RESEARCH funding
RETIREMENT
LONGITUDINAL method
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08856230
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158361776
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5785