Caring for Dementia Caregivers: Understanding Caregiver Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: More than 16 million Americans provide unpaid care for someone with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). During the COVID-19 pandemic, unpaid caregivers experienced increased chronic severe stress from widespread closures and social distancing. We conducted eight surveys from March 2020 to March 2021 among a cohort of over 10,000 individuals. Cross-sectional analysis was conducted to investigate frequency and ratios of groups reporting increased stress across surveys. A longitudinal analysis was also performed with the 1,030 participants who took more than one survey. We found a growing crisis among dementia caregivers: By Survey 8, current caregivers reported 2.9 times higher stress levels than the comparator group. By that time, 64% of current caregivers reported having mult

SUBMITTER: Lancashire L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328006 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature