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The Gerontologist, Vol 31, Issue 2 246-255, Copyright © 1991 by The Gerontological Society of America

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The nature of elder impairment and its impact on family caregivers' health and psychosocial functioning

L Cattanach and JK Tebes
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.

This study assessed the nature of elder impairment and its impact on the health and psychosocial functioning of family caregivers. All caregivers were daughters or daughters-in-law living with an elderly parent. Contrary to expectations and previous research, no differences were revealed among caregivers of cognitively impaired, functionally impaired, and nonimpaired elderly relatives in terms of self-reported health or psychosocial functioning. Thus, other aspects of the caregiving context, such as familial generation, gender, and living arrangement, may affect caregiver health and psychosocial functioning more than the nature of the elder's impairment.




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