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Multifactorial Examination of Caregiver Burden in a National Sample of Family and Unpaid Caregivers
- Source :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 67:277-283
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2018.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVES To examine factors associated with caregiver burden from a multifactorial perspective by examining caregiver and care recipient characteristics and a full range of caregiving tasks. DESIGN Nationally representative surveys of community‐dwelling older adults and their family caregivers residing in the United States. SETTING 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study and National Study of Caregiving. PARTICIPANTS Community‐dwelling older adults and their family caregivers. MEASUREMENTS Caregiver burden, comprising emotional, physical, and financial difficulties associated with caregiving. RESULTS An estimated 14.9 million caregivers assisted 7.6 million care recipients. More than half of caregivers reported burden related to caregiving. In a multivariable regression model, caregivers who assisted with more activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living, health management tasks, and health system logistics were more likely to experience burden, as were female caregivers, adult child caregivers, caregivers in poor health, caregivers with anxiety symptoms, and those using respite care. Dementia was the only care recipient characteristic associated with burden. CONCLUSION Caregiver characteristics and provision of caregiving tasks determine caregiver burden more than care recipient characteristics. Absence of an association between type of a care recipient's chronic conditions and burden, except for dementia, suggests that the tasks that caregivers who assist older adults with a variety of health conditions undertake shape the experience of caregiving. J Am Geriatr Soc 67:277–283, 2019.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Activities of daily living
Health management system
Family caregivers
business.industry
Sample (statistics)
Caregiver burden
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Respite care
medicine
Dementia
Anxiety
030212 general & internal medicine
Geriatrics and Gerontology
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00028614
- Volume :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8c684aca6e172599e6c15933ac903ac9