Why do spouses provide personal care? A study among care-receiving Dutch community-dwelling older adults.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates under what conditions older spouses receive personal care from their spouse. Whether spousal care is provided is determined by individual and societal factors related to informal and formal care provision. Individual factors concern the need for care (the care recipient's health status), the spouse's ability to provide care (the spouse's health status) and the quality of the marital bond. Societal factors reflect changing policies on long-term care (indicated by the year in which care started) and gender role socialisation (gender). From the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, which completed eight observations between 1996 and 2016, we selected 221 independently living married respondents, aged 59-93, who received personal care for the first time and had at least o

SUBMITTER: Swinkels JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9291597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature