An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family care plays an essential role in providing care in society. However, caring can cause stress, and mental and physical responses to caring vary widely. Different outcomes for carers may reflect different approaches or adaptability to caring and their ability to maintain or recover their mental health and wellbeing following an adverse event (psychosocial resilience). We aim to identify factors that may promote psychosocial resilience, conceptualized as maintaining or recovering subjective wellbeing and operationalized as satisfaction with life, among carers.

Methods

Data were from 6 Waves (2009-2021) of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA), a prospective biennial nationally representative longitudinal study of older adults aged ≥50 in Ireland. Family

SUBMITTER: McGarrigle CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10457003 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature