Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Likelihood of African American Primary Caregivers and Care Recipients Receiving Assistance From Secondary Caregivers

Likelihood of African American Primary Caregivers and Care Recipients Receiving Assistance From... We examine rural–urban differences in reliance on secondary caregivers for African American female primary caregivers (250 rural, 242 urban) and their care recipients. Logistic regression was used to identify caregiver and care recipient characteristics significantly associated with the likelihood of having a secondary caregiver within rural and urban samples. Post hoc Wald chi-square tests were used to identify significant between-sample differences in regression coefficients. Secondary caregivers were more common in urban than rural contexts. Having a secondary caregiver was more strongly related to primary caregivers’ poorer physical health and nonresidence with care recipients in rural than urban contexts. Findings suggest that policy initiatives, such as the National Family Caregivers Support Act and the cash and counseling model, may benefit rural and urban residents, particularly rural residents as the majority of them lacked secondary caregiver assistance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Gerontology SAGE

Likelihood of African American Primary Caregivers and Care Recipients Receiving Assistance From Secondary Caregivers

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/likelihood-of-african-american-primary-caregivers-and-care-recipients-BWaJDZoeHl

References (52)

Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2011
ISSN
0733-4648
eISSN
1552-4523
DOI
10.1177/0733464810371099
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

We examine rural–urban differences in reliance on secondary caregivers for African American female primary caregivers (250 rural, 242 urban) and their care recipients. Logistic regression was used to identify caregiver and care recipient characteristics significantly associated with the likelihood of having a secondary caregiver within rural and urban samples. Post hoc Wald chi-square tests were used to identify significant between-sample differences in regression coefficients. Secondary caregivers were more common in urban than rural contexts. Having a secondary caregiver was more strongly related to primary caregivers’ poorer physical health and nonresidence with care recipients in rural than urban contexts. Findings suggest that policy initiatives, such as the National Family Caregivers Support Act and the cash and counseling model, may benefit rural and urban residents, particularly rural residents as the majority of them lacked secondary caregiver assistance.

Journal

Journal of Applied GerontologySAGE

Published: Aug 1, 2011

There are no references for this article.