Informal Caregiver Burden, Benefits, and Older Adult Mortality: A Survival Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Informal caregivers are crucial to maintaining older adults' health, but few studies examine how caregiving receipt is associated with older person longevity. In a nationally representative sample, we prospectively explore whether and how having an informal caregiver is associated with older adult overall mortality, and how caregivers' burden and benefits perceptions relate to care recipient mortality.

Methods

We match six National Health and Aging Trends Study waves (2011-2016) with 2011 National Study of Caregiving data, conducting survival analysis on 7,369 older adults and 1,327 older adult-informal caregiver dyads.

Results

Having an informal caregiver is associated with 36% (p < .001) higher mortality risk over 6-year follow-up, adjusting for demographi

SUBMITTER: Pristavec T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7664316 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature