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The Gerontologist 40:429-436 (2000)
© 2000 The Gerontological Society of America

The Effects of Outpatient Geriatric Evaluation and Management on Caregiver Burden

Jennifer L. Weuve, MPHa,b, Chad Boult, MD, MPHc and Lynne Morishita, MSNc

a Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
b Ms. Weuve was with the Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota, at the time of this study
c Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Correspondence: Jennifer L. Weuve, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: jweuve{at}hsph.harvard.edu.

Vernon L. Greene, PhD

This study investigated the effects of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) on informal caregivers' sense of burden. We randomized 568 high-risk, community-dwelling older adults to receive either GEM or usual care for 6 months. At baseline and one year later, we assessed the burden experienced by their informal caregivers . Compared with caregivers of participants in the usual care group, caregivers of participants in the GEM group were less than half as likely to report increased burden during the one-year follow-up period . The findings suggest that GEM helps protect the informal caregivers of high-risk older people from the increases in burden that often accompany advancing age.

Key Words: Caregiving • Burden • GEM




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