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ArticleJournal of family issues2025

Caregiver Mental Health Across Generations.

Virginia T Gallagher, Ashleigh Patterson, Megan Hebdon, Carol A Manning, Kelly M Shaffer

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Article in Journal of family issues, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Virginia T GallagherDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3526-0828
Ashleigh PattersonDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Megan HebdonCollege of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Carol A ManningDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Kelly M ShafferCenter for Behavioral Health and Technology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Funding

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV): Using Data to Improve HealthUL1TR003015 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BROWN, DONALD E, JOHNSTON, KAREN C. · 2019 to 2023
$20.3M
Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR003016 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI PAPIN, JASON, WORRALL, BRADFORD B · 2019 to 2023
$3.9M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR003016NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR003015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: We evaluated generational differences in caregiver mental and social health to assess the need for targeted interventions for specific generations or age groups. Methods: We utilized cross-sectional 2022 data from a national caregiver survey. Using the cohort-based, life course framework, across Results: Results revealed significant effects of generation and caregiving status on mental health and social isolation, as well as a generational effect on life meaning (ps < .001). Post-hoc analyses revealed higher psychological distress, social isolation, and lower life meaning scores among Millennial caregivers relative to all other caregiver generations (ps ≤ 0.021). Conclusions: Younger caregiver generations are at risk for mental and social health outcomes and warrant targeted intervention.

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agecaregivinggenerationpsychological distresssocial isolation

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PMID41614146
PMCPMC12851570

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