Caregiving as a Risk Factor for Mortality
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Caregiving as a risk factor for mortality: the Caregiver Health Effects Study.
CONTEXT There is strong consensus that caring for an elderly individual with disability is burdensome and stressful to many family members and contributes to psychiatric morbidity. Researchers have also suggested that the combination of loss, prolonged distress, the physical demands of caregiving, and biological vulnerabilities of older caregivers may compromise their physiological functioning ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.282.23.2215