Care Recipient Concerns About Being a Burden and Unmet Needs for Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disabled older adults' needs for help with daily activities sometimes go unmet with potentially long-term negative consequences for health and well-being.

Objectives

To examine the relationship between care recipient unmet needs and (1) concerns about being a burden; (2) perceptions of caregiver burden; and (3) and caregiver self-reports of burden in community-dwelling care recipient-caregiver dyads.

Research design and methods

Telephone surveys with 196 linked caregiver-care recipient dyads from the 2017 Pittsburgh Regional Caregiver Survey. Of 376 caregivers who gave initial permission to contact the recipient (February-July), 262 caregivers were recontacted and gave permission to attempt a care recipient survey (September-October; n

SUBMITTER: Nieuwenhuis AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186011 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature