Family and other unpaid caregivers and older adults with and without dementia and disability

C Riffin, PH Van Ness, JL Wolff… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To estimate the number of caregivers providing assistance to community‐
dwelling older persons with and without dementia and with or without substantial disability; …

The disproportionate impact of dementia on family and unpaid caregiving to older adults

JD Kasper, VA Freedman, BC Spillman, JL Wolff - Health affairs, 2015 - healthaffairs.org
The number of US adults ages sixty-five and older who are living with dementia is
substantial and expected to grow, raising concerns about the demands that will be placed …

Multifactorial examination of caregiver burden in a national sample of family and unpaid caregivers

C Riffin, PH Van Ness, JL Wolff… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES To examine factors associated with caregiver burden from a multifactorial
perspective by examining caregiver and care recipient characteristics and a full range of …

Family caregiver factors associated with unmet needs for care of older adults

SR Beach, R Schulz - Journal of the American Geriatrics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To examine caregiver factors associated with unmet needs for care of older
adults. Design Population‐based surveys of caregivers and older adult care recipients in the …

Caring for individuals with dementia and cognitive impairment, not dementia: findings from the aging, demographics, and memory study

GG Fisher, MM Franks, BL Plassman… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To compare the characteristics and outcomes of caregivers of adults with
dementia with those of caregivers of adults with cognitive impairment, not dementia (CIND) …

A national profile of family and unpaid caregivers who assist older adults with health care activities

JL Wolff, BC Spillman, VA Freedman… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Family and unpaid caregivers commonly help older adults who are at high risk
for poorly coordinated care. Objective To examine how caregivers' involvement in older …

Family caregivers of older adults, 1999–2015: Trends in characteristics, circumstances, and role-related appraisal

JL Wolff, J Mulcahy, J Huang, DL Roth… - The …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Purpose of Study To assess trends in family caregiving between 1999 and 2015.
Design and Methods We construct nationally representative profiles of community-dwelling …

Caregivers of frail elders: Updating a national profile

JL Wolff, JD Kasper - The Gerontologist, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Purpose: Family caregivers comprise the backbone of long-term-care provision in the United
States, yet little is known about how the composition and experience of family caregiving has …

Prevalence and impact of caregiving: A detailed comparison between dementia and nondementia caregivers

MG Ory, RR Hoffman III, JL Yee, S Tennstedt… - The …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Analyzing data from more than 1,500 family caregivers from the 1996 National Caregiver
Survey, this study documents the ways in which dementia care is different from other types of …

A national profile of end-of-life caregiving in the United States

KA Ornstein, AS Kelley, E Bollens-Lund, JL Wolff - Health Affairs, 2017 - healthaffairs.org
To date, knowledge of the experiences of older adults' caregivers at the end of life has come
from studies that were limited to specific diseases and so-called primary caregivers and that …