A LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS OF INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (IADL) CAREGIVING NEEDS
Suyoung Kim, Sunshine Rote, Phillip Cantu, Flávia Andrade, Jacqueline Angel · 2024
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Suyoung Kim and co-authors sort Mexican American family caregivers by the shape of help their loved ones need, and find the shapes predict the caregivers' own mental weather. Help with daily instrumental tasks, shopping, cooking, transport, comes in very different bundles, and studies usually average them away. Their 2024 paper applies latent class analysis to survey data on 885 care dyads.
Four classes emerged. The largest, thirty-nine percent, needed comprehensive help with nearly everything. Others needed help only with social tasks, only with physical mobility, or minimally at all. The elder's thinking ability and birthplace, and the caregiver's homeownership, predicted the class. Stress ran highest in the comprehensive group and lowest in the social-task group, while life satisfaction peaked in the minimal group and depression clustered where needs were comprehensive or physical. Support programs, they argue, should be cut to the class.
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| CREATOR | Suyoung Kim, Sunshine Rote, Phillip Cantu, Flávia Andrade, Jacqueline Angel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |