Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2019 Sep 15;74(7):1278-1282. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx106.
Spousal 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.
Data 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.
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.
Caregivers' declines in participation in physical activities may be an important indicator for preservation of health and management of caregiving stress.
配偶护理会对健康和幸福产生重大影响，因为这种角色会带来压力和负担。保持活动参与度对于晚年健康和幸福非常重要，并且可能是护理人员健康和幸福的一个可能的促成机制。本文考察了活动参与度的纵向变化，并探讨了配偶护理状况和护理人员年龄如何与老年人样本中纵向活动参与度相关。
使用健康与退休研究的四个波次的数据，对配偶护理期间、年龄以及在 6 年内参与身体、社交、自我护理、被动和新信息处理活动之间的关联进行建模。
护理状况与随时间推移的身体活动参与度下降有关。年龄较大与较少的身体活动和更多的自我护理和被动活动有关。
护理人员身体活动参与度的下降可能是保持健康和管理护理压力的一个重要指标。
