Association Between Spousal Caregiver Well-Being and Care Recipient Healthcare Expenditures.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To measure the association between spousal depression, general health, fatigue and sleep, and future care recipient healthcare expenditures and emergency department (ED) use.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Health and Retirement Study.

Participants

Home-dwelling spousal dyads in which one individual (care recipient) was aged 65 and older and had one or more activity of daily living or instrumental activity of daily living disabilities and was enrolled in Medicare Part B (N = 3,101).

Exposure

Caregiver sleep (Jenkins Sleep Scale), depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-8 Scale), and self-reported general health measures.

Measurements

Primary outcome was care recipient Medicare expenditures. Secondary ou

SUBMITTER: Ankuda CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5762126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature