African American Stroke Survivors: More Caregiving Time, but Less Caregiving Burden.

ABSTRACT: Blacks have higher stroke incidence and experience greater poststroke disability than whites. To optimize care for stroke survivors, it is important to understand the amount of care that they receive and the implications for stroke caregivers. Data from 2 nationally representative, population-based studies, the NHATS (National Health and Aging Trends Study) linked to the NSOC (National Study of Caregiving), were used to identify elderly stroke survivors and their caregivers. We compared hours of care received and unmet activity need among the 581 white and 225 black stroke survivors. We then performed racial comparisons of positive and negative aspects of caregiving reported by caregivers of black and white stroke survivors. Black stroke survivors were more likely than white stroke survivo

SUBMITTER: Skolarus LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5325085 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature