ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2022
Close enough? Adult child-to-parent caregiving and residential proximity.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Literature on Caregiving Preparation of Adult Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Caregiving across distances: residential proximity, care activities, and mental health.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- Neighborhood social cohesion and psychological distress among caregiving spouses with or without a nearby social support network.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Social exchange in intergenerational relationships over the family life course: reciprocity dynamics in support to older mothers.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Adult Children's Responsiveness to Parental Needs During the Pandemic.Journal of marriage and the family · 2025Article
- Association of Family Support With Lower Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia Among Cognitively Impaired Older Adults.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mortality risk following end-of-life caregiving: A population-based analysis of hospice users and their families.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Geographic Relocation in Response to Parents' Health Shocks: Who Moves and How Close?Journal of marriage and the family · 2024Article
- The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Family Ties and Older Adult Well-Being: Incorporating Social Networks and Proximity.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Social Isolation and Worsening Health Behaviors Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Measuring spatial availability of children for older adults with disability.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Adult children are among the most frequent providers for community-dwelling older adults with a disability. This report assesses the extent to which help received from an adult child by older persons with a disability is contingent on the distance between their residences. Using the national Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we selected persons 55 and older with a disability and their adult children (810 older adults; 1767 dyads of older adult - adult child pairs). The adjusted average hours of help received from an adult child was estimated by the distance between the parent's and the adult child's residences using a two-part model with a linear spline of proximity and adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic factors of the parent and child. We found that average weekly hours of help received from an adult child by older adults with a disability declined dramatically as the distance between older adults and their adult children's residences increased, but only up to 2-5 miles. Adjusted average weekly hours of help received from an adult child were 5.99 (95%CI 3.33, 8.65) if coresident, 3.16 (95%CI 2.04, 4.28) if on the same block, 1.16 (95%CI 0.72, 1.59) if 2-5 miles away, 0.79 (95%CI 0.39, 1.20) if 5-10 miles away, and 0.58 (95%CI 0.25, 0.92) if > 100 miles. The amount of help for parents with a disability may require adult children living very near their parents which has important implications for long-term care for the aging population.
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