Informal Caregiver Burden, Benefits, and Older Adult Mortality: A Survival Analysis.
Objective Informal caregivers are crucial to maintaining older adults' health, but few studies examine how caregiving receipt is associated with older person longevity. In a nationally representative sample, we prospectively explore whether and how having an informal caregiver is associated with old...
| Publicado en: | Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 75; no. 10; pp. 2193 - 2207 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2020
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