Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Spousal caregiving can have strong implications for health and wellbeing given the strain and burden associated with the role. Maintaining activity engagement is important for late-life health and wellbeing, and may be a possible contributing mechanism to caregiver health and wellbeing. This paper examined longitudinal changes in activity engagement and asks how spousal caregiving status and caregiver age related to longitudinal activity engagement in a sample of older adults.

Method

Data from four waves of the Health and Retirement study were used to model associations between periods of being a spousal caregiver, age, and engagement in physical, social, self-care, passive, and novel information processing activities over a 6-year period.

Results

Caregiving

SUBMITTER: Queen TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748708 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature