Care Recipients' Cognitive Trajectories and Caregivers' Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Caregiving Burden.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The heterogeneity of population-based trajectories of care recipients' (CRs) cognitive functioning and how they are associated with their caregivers' mental health is less studied in the United States. Informed by the stress process model, this study examines the relationship between care recipients' cognitive trajectories and caregivers' depressive symptoms, and the mediating role of caregiving burden.

Research design and methods

Data were from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011-2020) for 1,086 care recipients and their 1,675 caregivers from the 2021 National Study of Caregiving. We applied Bayesian group-based trajectory modeling to identify distinct cognitive trajectory groups among care recipients. Hierarchical linear models were t

SUBMITTER: Lou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11934274 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature