Do Informal Care Recipients Internalise Carer Burden? Examining the Impact of Informal Care Receipt on Health Behaviours.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing informal care has a negative effect on the caregiver's health and well-being, but little is known about how individuals respond to receiving informal care. Care recipients may improve their health behaviours to minimise the onerousness of caregiving and the stress faced by their carer from seeing a loved one in ill-health.

Objective

We aimed to examine whether informal care recipients internalise the potential for carer spillovers through changes in health behaviours.

Methods

We used data from 3250 older adults with care needs who took part in the UK Household Longitudinal Study between 2017 and 2019. We examined the response to informal care receipt in terms of the probability of engaging in four health behaviours: healthy diet, physical activity

SUBMITTER: Elliott J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864417 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature