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Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers

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  • Tara L Queen
  • Jonathan Butner
  • Cynthia A Berg
  • Jacqui Smith
  • Deborah Carr

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Objectives pousal caregiving can have strong implications for health and wellbeing given the strain and burden associated with the role. Maintaining activity engagement is important for late-life health and wellbeing, and may be a possible contributing mechanism to caregiver health and wellbeing. This paper examined longitudinal changes in activity engagement and asks how spousal caregiving status and caregiver age related to longitudinal activity engagement in a sample of older adults. MethodData from four waves of the Health and Retirement study were used to model associations between periods of being a spousal caregiver, age, and engagement in physical, social, self-care, passive, and novel information processing activities over a 6-year period. Results Caregiving status was associated with declines in physical activity engagement over time. Older age was associated with fewer physical and more self-care and passive activities. Discussion Caregivers’ declines in participation in physical activities may be an important indicator for preservation of health and management of caregiving stress.

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  • Tara L Queen & Jonathan Butner & Cynthia A Berg & Jacqui Smith & Deborah Carr, 2019. "Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 74(7), pages 1278-1282.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:74:y:2019:i:7:p:1278-1282.
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    1. Hiyoshi, Ayako & Rostila, Mikael & Fall, Katja & Montgomery, Scott & Grotta, Alessandra, 2023. "Caregiving and changes in health-related behaviour," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 322(C).

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