Inter-Spousal Mortality Effects Caregiver Burden Across the Spectrum of Disabling Disease
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The health oftwo people connected by a social tie may be interdependent. The impact of the death of one spouse on the risk of death of the other, known as the widow/er effect, is a classic example (Parkes and Fitzgerald 1969; Lillard and Waite 1995; Martikainen and Valkonen 1996a; and Schaefer, Quesenberry, and Soora 1995). The impact of illness in one spouse on the risk of ill health or death in the other spouse (the proband under study), is another example. This latter phenomenon, often termed caregiver burden, is typically studied as ifit were unrelated to the widower effect (Clipp and George 1993; Dunkin and Anderson-Hanley 1998; Shaw et al. 1997; Schulz et aI. 2003)-as if ill health in a spouse affects the morbidity, but not necessarily the mortality, of caregiving probands. Indeed, most prior work on caregiver burden has focused on how spousal illness worsens the health of probands, but not on whether it increases their mortality, with the exception of one influential study that suggested that caregiving to dementia patients was a risk factor for death (Schulz and Beach 1999). Moreover, comparisons across different types of spousal diseases, in terms of how they may affect caregiver health, are lacking. Some studies have found that worse physical health in a spouse is
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تاریخ انتشار 2010