NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary Up to 36 million Americans provide caregiving to disabled adults and approximately 16.1 million provide informal caregiving to people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Given the rising number of older adults with disability and ADRD and the accompanying shortage and cost of paid caregivers, family and other unpaid caregivers are increasingly vital in the long-term care of older adults. Caregiving is often shared across multiple social partners across the life course, across generations within family, extended family, stepfamily and non-family ties who may experience heterogeneous burden. Yet, most research focuses on spouse and child caregivers. Digital…
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