Comparing adult-child and spousal caregiver burden and potential contributors.
Anny T H R FentonNancy L KeatingKatherine A OrnsteinErin E KentKristin LitzelmanJulia H RowlandAlexi A WrightPublished in: Cancer (2022)
Adult-children spend less time caregiving than spouses/partners, but have higher social/emotional and financial caregiving burdens, partially due to adult-children's employment, caregiver-patients' gender concordance, and relationship quality. Gender concordance's contribution to greater social/emotional burden adds important context to prior findings, indicating female caregivers experience the most burden. Interventions that improve caregiver-patient communication may reduce both adult-child and spousal caregiver burden.