Rural-urban and regional variations in aspects of caregiving, support services and caregiver health in the USA: evidence from a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Due to substantial regional variability in available caregiving services and supports, culture and health status among informal caregivers in the USA, the study objective was to explore how rural-urban differences in aspects of caregiving-caregiving intensity, distance to care recipient, caregiver burden, caregiver health and caregiving support-vary by US Census region (Northeast, South, Midwest and West) after accounting for other social determinants of health.

Design

This study was a secondary analysis of multiwave, cross-sectional study data.

Setting

The data were collected on a representative sample of informal, unpaid caregivers to older adults.

Participants

A sample of n=3551 informal caregivers from the National Study of Caregiving identified

SUBMITTER: Cohen SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11459326 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature