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Research on Aging, Vol. 21, No. 4, 515-538 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027599214001

Effect of Giving Care on Caregivers’Health

Marie R. Haug

Case Western Reserve University

Amasa B. Ford

Case Western Reserve University

Kurt C. Stange

Case Western Reserve University

Linda S. Noelker

Benjamin Rose Institute

Atwood D. Gaines

Case Western Reserve University

This longitudinal study of 121 caregivers of the elderly evaluates the change in their self-assessed mental and physical health over two years. The care recipients, who were drawn from a random sample of noninstitutionalized urban elders, showed increased need for help with personal and instrumental activities of daily living in this period. Both the physical and mental health of the caregivers declined significantly during the study. Predictors of decline in physical health of the caregivers at the end of the study were poorer physical health at the start, the amount of help they provided, a decline in their own mental health, and an increase in the number of other persons also available to provide care. In contrast, decline in caregivers’ mental health at the end was predicted only by poorer mental health at the start and by decline in physical health.


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