Informal care outside the household by older people and cardiovascular health of caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the SHARE European study
Raquel Cervigón, Evangelos Kontopantelis · 2026
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Raquel Cervigón and Evangelos Kontopantelis analyzed in 2026 whether older people who care for others outside their own household pay for it with their heart health. Their cross-sectional analysis draws on SHARE, a large European study of aging. Informal care by older adults is a pillar of European welfare that budgets rarely count, and caregivers are themselves an aging, medically vulnerable group.
The authors compare the cardiovascular health of these caregivers with that of similar older people who do not provide such care. If helping others outside the home carries a measurable cost to the helper's heart, support services should count caregivers as people needing care too. The study adds European evidence to a question usually asked only about family caregivers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Raquel Cervigón, Evangelos Kontopantelis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34986 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |