Importance Caregiver burden may result from providing care for patients with chronic illness.
It can occur in any of the 43.5 million individuals providing support to midlife and older …

Family members are the primary source of support for older adults with chronic illness and
disability. Thousands of published empirical studies and dozens of reviews have …

Due to an expected increase of people in need of care, sound knowledge about health
effects of informal care provision is becoming more and more important. Theoretically, there …

Aim Our study aimed to investigate the caregiving burden and its associated factors in family
caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Design Correlational study. Method Using the …

This chapter examines the multiple and evolving roles of caregivers of older adults and the
impact of assuming these roles on caregivers' health and well-being. It describes caregiver …

Unpaid, informal carers play a vital role in supporting people with long-term conditions.
Being a carer can be challenging and carers may need support but they frequently fail to …

Caregiving in the last years of life is associated with increased depression and negative
health outcomes for surviving spouses, many of whom are themselves in poor health. Yet it …

Based on the caregiver stress model, we examined how care demands, caregiver
motivation, coping style and external support are associated with positive evaluation and …

Multiple studies have confirmed a seemingly paradoxical finding that family caregivers have
lower mortality rates than comparable samples of noncaregivers. Caregivers are often also …

We investigate the extent to which people's earlier circumstances and experiences shape
subsequent life-courses. We do this using UK longitudinal data to provide a dynamic …