Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral MedicineDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2003-04-30Keywords
African AmericansAged
Aged, 80 and over
Caregivers
Cross-Sectional Studies
Employment
Female
Health Services Research
Home Care Services
Home Nursing
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Massachusetts
Middle Aged
Social Work
Time and Motion Studies
Vulnerable Populations
Life Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences
Women's Studies
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To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and informal caregiving responsibilities, the authors used data from a community sample of 119 African American elder-caregiver dyads. This article examines the nature of caregiving relationships and extent to which caregivers' employment statuses affect the hours of care provided. The authors concluded that employed caregivers do not provide significantly less care than do unemployed caregivers, elderly people with employed caregivers are no more likely than those with unemployed caregivers to use formal services, and unemployed caregivers may remain unemployed partly because of caregiving responsibilities.Source
Soc Work. 2003 Apr;48(2):150-62.
DOI
10.1093/sw/48.2.150Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/50730PubMed ID
12718411Related Resources
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10.1093/sw/48.2.150