BACKGROUND Spouses' involvement in palliative care is often a prerequisite for home death, but it is unclear whether active involvement of the spouse, e.g. administering and being in charge of oral or subcutaneous medication or taking care of the patient's personal hygiene, could be harmful or have negative effects on the spouse's experience of the palliative course of disease. The aim of this ...

The article deals with topical issues of private international law when disposing the commonproperty spouses, in particular, range known conflict bindings is determined choosing theapplicable resolving property between main current problems caused by conflictdifficulties are analyzed, and their possible solutions proposed. authors analyzed followingconflict problems: determining joint place res...

In the current study, the prevalence of the most common psychological disorders in COPD patients and their spouses was assessed cross-sectionally. The influence of COPD patients' and their spouses' psychopathology on patient health-related quality of life was also examined. The following measurements were employed: Forced expiratory volume in 1 second expressed in percentage predicted (FEV1%), ...

A review of the literature shows an association between depression and perceived burden in caregivers of dementia patients. These caregivers are often the spouses of cognitively impaired elders, and they experience an emotional toll with negative effects on their mental health and well-being. Findings from past research focus on spouses as caregivers and the influences of primary and secondary ...

The study examined whether spouses' attributions for partner behavior are related to their own behavior by assessing their attributions and observing the problem-solving discussions of couples in which (a) neither spouse was depressed or maritally distressed, (b) the wife was depressed and both spouses were maritally distressed, and (c) the wife was not depressed and both spouses were maritally...

Alcohol use is frequently associated with violence between intimate partners. The real link between alcohol abuse and domestic violence is difficult to establish. This study intends to examine the prevalence of domestic violence in females attending a psychiatric clinic and the role of alcohol in violence and the nature of violence. Of the 115 cases seen, 65 were married and formed the sample o...

You marry your spouse "for better, for worse" and "for richer, for poorer," but does your choice of partner make you richer or poorer? It is unknown whether people's dispositional characteristics can seep into their spouses' workplace. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of married individuals (N=4,544), we examined whether Big Five personality traits of participants' spouses related to...

Using Canadian administrative data from multiple sources, we provide the first nationally representative estimates for the effect of spouses' cancer diagnoses on individuals' employment and earnings and on family income. Our identification strategy exploits unexpected health shocks and combines matching with individual fixed effects in a generalized difference-in-differences framework to contro...

This paper evaluates the status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose admission regimes place different emphases on skills. Using log-linear methods, we demonstrate that foreign-born spouses trade educational credentials via marriage with natives in both Australian and U.S. marriage markets and, moreover, that nati...