The Gerontologist, Vol 38, Issue 3 331-341, Copyright © 1998 by The Gerontological Society of America

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The impact of female caregivers' employment status on patterns of formal and informal eldercare

P Doty, ME Jackson and W Crown
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201, USA. pdoty@osaspe.dhhs.gov

This article uses data from the 1989 National Long-Term Care Survey and its companion Informal Caregivers Survey to investigate how the employment of female primary caregivers (FPCGs) affects hours of care received by disabled elderly care recipients (CRs). Multivariage analyses controlling for key FPCG and CR characteristics indicate that when FPCGs are employed they provide significantly fewer hours of care personally; however, their CRs also receive significantly more hours of help from other sources. When FPCGs work more than 17 hours per week, their CRs receive significantly fewer total weekly hours of care than would otherwise be the case.

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