A national profile of sandwich generation caregivers providing care to both older adults and children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many U.S. caregivers provide care to the generation above and below simultaneously, described as "sandwich" generation caregivers. We seek to provide the first national estimates characterizing sandwich generation caregivers and the older adults for whom they care.

Methods

We used the 2015 National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) and National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) to compare individual (demographic, socio-economic, health, and caregiving characteristics) and caregiving-related experience (financial and emotional difficulties, caregiver role overload and gains, supportive services, employment and participation restrictions) between sandwich and non-sandwich generation caregivers. The analysis included adult child caregivers with or without any minor chil

SUBMITTER: Lei L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10023280 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature