Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia is a debilitating, progressive condition that often places caregiving responsibility on informal (unpaid) caregivers, causing substantial burden to caregivers and society. Caregiver utility comprises an important part of this should be considered when assessing interventions for AD dementia. This study aimed quantify through directly eliciting values from the g...

OBJECTIVE Prior studies have extensively examined the reciprocal relation between disability and depressive symptoms in late life, but little is known about whether informal care attenuates the reciprocal relation over time. This study examined whether disability and depressive symptoms mobilize informal care and whether informal care, once mobilized, protects older adults against the progressi...

BACKGROUND Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in dementia is difficult. At some point people with dementia become unable to meaningfully assess their own HRQoL. At such a point in time researchers need to rely on other types of information such as observation or assessments from informal caregivers (proxies). However, caregiver assessments may be biased by several mechanisms....

PURPOSE This study examined how the amount of informal care received by disabled elders changes when they are receiving publicly paid home care, and whether formal service use, disability, caregiving arrangements, and demographic characteristics of older adults predict changes in the amount of informal care. DESIGN AND METHODS Hierarchical linear models were estimated, using 3-year data (12 r...