Health and health service use of Australian female live-in caregivers at multiple caregiver trajectory timepoints: a population-based dataset with time-matched controls
Leigh Tooth, Richard Hockey, Gita D Mishra · 2026
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Description
Tooth, Hockey, and Mishra tracked in 2026 the health of Australian women who live with and care for a frail or ill kin, across twenty years. Care work falls hard on women, and its health cost may outlast the care span. The team drew on a long women's health study, six thousand carers aged fifty to seventy seven. Mind health, body ease, strain, and doctor use were scored at eight waves. Matched non carers gave the base line at each point.
Carers started with the same body ease as peers, then slid below them. The slide held in care and long past its end. Mind health lagged at each wave, on each scale used. Carers saw their main doctor more, in all spans. Deep care deepened each gap. The worst scores came just before care stopped, the team's key warn: aid must land while care still runs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leigh Tooth, Richard Hockey, Gita D Mishra |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |