ArticleThe Gerontologist2020
Race Differences in Characteristics and Experiences of Black and White Caregivers of Older Americans.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- A nation of caregivers: past, present, and future expectations of caregiving.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Accessing Care Across Cultures: Qualitative Insights Into the Reality of Informal Caregivers From Ethnically Minoritised Groups.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Improving information sharing in Medicaid home and community-based services with learning health systems: Implications for older adults and individuals living with disabilities and dementia.Learning health systems · 2025Article
- The Consequence of the Cape: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry into the Sociocultural Stressors Impacting Black Women's Health.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Black-White Differences in Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Deserts: Implications for Unmet Care Needs.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Developing and Testing a Two-Part Intervention: Enhancing Dementia Instruction and Tool in Home Hospice Care.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- Lived Experience of Caregivers of Lung Transplant Recipients in Korea.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The longitudinal impacts of secondary caregiver networks on primary caregiver's social isolation and depression.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Prescription Pain Medication Misuse Among Family Caregivers: A Call to Action.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesRacial disparities in health and socioeconomic characteristics of older adults have implications for the experiences of their family and unpaid caregivers, but knowledge to date has primarily drawn from convenience samples. Using a population-based sample, we examine associations between caregiver race and caregiving-related effects. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsStudy participants include white (n = 992) and black (n = 556) respondents to the 2015 National Study of Caregiving who assisted community-dwelling older adults with disabilities who participated in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Guided by Pearlin's Stress Process Model, hierarchical logistic regression models were constructed to examine race differences in caregiving-related effects after adjusting for caregiving context, stressors, and resources.
resultsRelative to white caregivers, blacks more often provided in excess of 40 hr of care per week (54.3% vs 38.6%) and more often cared for an older adult with dementia (27.1% vs 20.7%) who was living below the federal poverty line (31.7% vs 11.9%) or was Medicaid-eligible (42.2% vs 11.8%). Black caregivers more often used supportive services (32.9% vs 24.8%). In fully adjusted regression models, black caregivers were more likely to report gains and less likely to report emotional difficulty than whites. Service utilization did not attenuate caregiving-related emotional difficulty or participation restrictions, regardless of race. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Findings highlight caregiving disparities and counterintuitive differences in experiences and indicate the importance of identifying supports such as paid family leave and faith and community-based programming to better support community-dwelling low-income older adults and their family and unpaid caregivers.
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