Male and female partner-caregivers' burden: Does it get worse over time?

JC Swinkels, MI Broese van Groenou… - The …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Objectives The general view is that partner-caregiver burden
increases over time but findings are inconsistent. Moreover, the pathways underlying …

Occurrence and Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline Shared by Couples: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

H Meng, X Lv, R Zhang, Y Feng, J Wang… - Journal of …, 2024 - content.iospress.com
Background: To date, the magnitude of association and the quality of evidence for cognitive
decline (mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia) in couples and risk …

Depressive symptom trajectories and cognition among older American couples: A dyadic perspective

D Kong, P Lu, P Solomon, J Woo… - Journal of Aging and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives This study examined whether trajectories of depressive symptoms of one spouse
are associated with the other spouse's memory. Methods Longitudinal data from the Health …

Exploration of cognitive outcomes and risk factors for cognitive decline shared by couples

HW Yang, JB Bae, DJ Oh, DG Moon, E Lim… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although couples could share many risk factors of cognitive disorders in their
lifetime, whether shared risk factors mediate the shared risk of cognitive disorders has rarely …

Making the decision to move to a nursing home: longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

P Lu, D Kong, M Shelley - Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study applied the theory of planned behavior to examine predictors of US older
adults'(65+ years) intention and behavior of moving to a nursing home. Two waves of Health …

Association of spouse's health status with the onset of depressive symptoms in partner: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

L He, Z Zheng, X Li, X Cao, J Zhang, C Chen… - Journal of Affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background This study aimed to evaluate the associations between the multidimensional
health status of one spouse and the onset of depressive symptoms in partner, and whether …

Why do spouses provide personal care? A study among care‐receiving Dutch community‐dwelling older adults

JC Swinkels, TG van Tilburg… - Health & Social Care …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates under what conditions older spouses receive personal care from
their spouse. Whether spousal care is provided is determined by individual and societal …

Health behavior patterns and associated risk of memory-related disorders among middle-aged and older Chinese couples

D Kong, P Lu, YH Lee, B Wu… - Research on Aging, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: Studies on the interdependence of couples' health behaviors and subsequent
cognitive outcomes remain limited. Methods: Longitudinal data from the China Health and …

Advance directive completion among older American couples: A dyadic perspective on the role of cognitive function and other factors

P Lu, D Kong, J Lee, M Shelley - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objective Dyadic perspective is scarce in existing advance directive (AD) literature.
Particularly, the significance of one's own and/or one's partner's cognitive function on AD …

[PDF][PDF] Work-family combinations and depression at older age: A gendered life course perspective

M Engels - docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de
Depression at older age is a great public health challenge and distributed unequally
between genders. It can result from chronic stressors earlier in the life course, which often …