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ArticleJournal of aging & social policy

Intergenerational Relationships, Family Caregiving Policy, and COVID-19 in the United States.

Jeffrey E Stokes, Sarah E Patterson

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Article in Journal of aging & social policy. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2024
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  8. Surprising Gendered Age Differences in Rural Malawians' Early COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024
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  11. Intergenerational Ties and COVID-19 Contagion: A Study on European Adults Aged 50 Years and Older Using SHARE Data.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023
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  17. The Effect of Support From Secondary Caregiver Network on Primary Caregiver Burden: Do Men and Women, Blacks and Whites Differ?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jeffrey E StokesAssistant Professor, Department of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston , Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3630-0959
Sarah E PattersonNational Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5040-7576

Funding

TRAINING IN THE DEMOGRAPHY OF AGINGT32AG000221 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Sarah A. Burgard · 1992 to 2026
$15.3M
NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000221
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Families and intergenerational relationships are important sources of risk for COVID-19 infection, especially for older adults who are at high risk of complications from the disease. If one family member is exposed to the virus they could serve as a source of transmission or, if they fall ill, the resources they provide to others could be severed. These risks may be especially heightened for family members who work outside the home and provide care, or for those family members who care for multiple generations. Policies have the potential to help families bear the burden of these decisions. This essay argues that policies that address health, employment, and other social issues have implications for families, and that policies aimed at families and caregivers can affect the health, employment, and the general well-being of the nation.

Indexed as

FamilyPolicyAgedBetacoronavirusCaregiversCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19EmploymentHumansInfection ControlIntergenerational RelationsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2United StatescaregivingemploymentFamiliesintergenerational relationshipsmultigenerational households

Identifiers

PMID32489144
PMCPMC7754249

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