ArticleThe Gerontologist2019
Financial Strain, Employment, and Role Captivity and Overload Over Time Among Dementia Family Caregivers.
Article in The Gerontologist, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessing professional caregiver burden related to patient agitation in dementia: A systematic review of measurement scales.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Pooled it
- Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- Caregiver Burden of Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Systematic Review.PharmacoEconomics · 2023Pooled it
- Mindfulness and rumination: stress pathways for caregivers of persons living with dementia.The Gerontologist · 2026Trial
- Health consequences of spousal health shocks: evidence from a matched event study in the United States.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Financial strain contributes to daily depressive and anxiety symptoms in Hispanic and Latino family caregivers of people living with dementia: A daily diary study.Alzheimer's & dementia. Behavior & socioeconomics of aging · 2026Article
- Role Captivity in Former Dementia Caregivers: Constrained Choice, Role Engulfment and Caregiver Wellbeing in Ageing Care.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Article
- Climate change and mental health burden among caregivers in California.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- When family caregiving happens: life-course timing and health outcomes in later life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Stress and coping among dual caregivers in China: a grounded theory study of intergenerational caregiving.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- A 'personhood paradox': Care partners' experiences supporting people with dementia and incontinence.Dementia (London, England) · 2026Article
- Navigating caregiving challenges: the interplay of health literacy and resilience in families of chronically ill older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Employment Status, Decision-Making, and Sleep Among Hispanic and Latinx Dementia Family Caregivers: A Secondary Data Analysis.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Article
- Does caregiver stress get under the skin? Associations with care recipient inflammation.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Elements of burden among informal caregivers of community-dwelling older adults receiving home care nursing: a cross-sectional study on health status, well-being, and gender differences.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Acceptability and satisfaction of a newly developed financial preparedness program for caregivers of older adults with a chronic illness.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Lived experiences of caregivers with a family member living with a severe mental health condition in South Africa.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Financial Toxicity in Dementia Caregiving: Sociodemographic Predictors in a U.S. Nationally Representative Survey.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Financial health and well-being of rural female caregivers of older adults with chronic illnesses.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesThis study examined how financial strain and changes in employment status affect subjective stressors over 12 months in 184 family caregivers of individuals with dementia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsSubjective stressors of role overload and role captivity, and employment status were measured at baseline, 6-, and 12-months. Self-reports on financial strain were measured at baseline only. Caregivers were categorized into 3 groups based on changes in their employment status during the study over 12 months: (a) who were never employed, (b) who experienced some sort of employment status change, either going from employment to unemployment or vice versa, and (c) who were always employed. Growth curve analyses were conducted to examine within-person changes in role overload and role captivity, and associations with employment and financial strain.
resultsCaregivers with greater financial strain at baseline had higher levels of role overload and increasing role captivity over time. Caregivers who experienced a caregiving transition and had low financial strain at baseline showed greater decrease in role captivity over 12 months. Although caregivers who were consistently unemployed reported lower levels of role overload, they also showed steeper increase over time than those who were consistently employed. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Caregivers' perceptions of financial strain add to the long-term stress of the caregiving role. Changes in caregivers' employment status may have complex associations with their feelings of stress over time.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.