Geographical location as a determinant of caregiver burden: a rural-urban analysis of the informal caregiving, health, and healthcare survey in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The caregiving scholarship widely acknowledges informal caregivers' contributions to maintaining older adults' health and well-being. However, informal caregivers encounter economic, physical, social, financial and psychological challenges when caring for older adults. The caregiving literature has shown variations in caregiving intensity and motivation between rural and urban informal caregivers of older adults. This situation is likely to result in rural-urban disparities in caregiver burden. However, the literature on predictors of caregiver burden is more focused on demographic, socio-economic, caregiving and health-related factors with very little attention to geographical dynamics. For this reason, the effects of demographic, socio-economic, caregiving, and health-

SUBMITTER: Agyemang-Duah W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11351011 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature