Open AccessDoes Caring for a Spouse With Dementia Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Findings From the Health and Retirement Study
Author(s) -
Kara Dassel,
Dawn Carr,
Peter P. Vitaliano
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnv148
Subject(s) - spouse , dementia , health and retirement study , gerontology , cognitive decline , cognition , psychology , cognitive aging , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , disease , sociology , pathology , anthropology
The purpose of this study is to expand our recent work, which showed that spousal dementia caregivers compared to spousal nondementia caregivers experience an accelerated rate of frailty over time, by exploring cognitive health outcomes between dementia and nondementia caregivers.
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