Considerable research and public discourse on family caregiving portrays it as a stressful
and burdensome experience with serious negative health consequences. A landmark study …

Decades of research have demonstrated strong links between social ties and health.
Although considerable evidence has shown that social support can attenuate downstream …

The present meta-analysis integrates the results from 168 empirical studies on differences
between caregiving spouses, adult children, and children-in-law. Spouses differ from …

This meta-analysis integrates results from 229 studies on gender differences in caregiver
psychological and physical health, caregiving stressors, and social resources. Contrary to …

Abstract Objectives. The National Social Life, Health and Aging Project is the first population-
based, nationally representative study to ask older adults about their recent experience of …

Traditional investigations of caregiving link it to increased caregiver morbidity and mortality,
but do not disentangle the effects of providing care from those of being continuously …

The recent literature on carers' burden in mental disorders is reviewed. Families bear the
major responsibility for such care. Carers face mental ill health as a direct consequence of …

Background The health of unpaid caregivers is poorer, on average, than in non-caregivers.
There has been little focus on how health changes when becoming a caregiver and whether …

This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health
care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from …

Understanding the effect of informal care for an elderly or disabled person on labor market
outcomes is important for developing policies targeted towards caregivers. However …