Caregiving, Employment, and the Multigenerational Family

• In Event: 4266 - Section on Aging and the Life Course Refereed Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable 100min: 2. Caregiving

Abstract

Informal caregivers have been assessed as medical buffers and as people altered by their circumstances, but little research has examined the social impact of their care work or how care work has affected their lives outside the home. This study will perform multivariate regression analysis on open data from a recent nonprofit survey of caregivers to identify patterns between caregiver employment and the relationship between caregiver and care recipient. In particular, I will report generational trends and variations according to employment status and the impact of available benefits for employed caregivers. This study will include attention to intersections of race, gender, education, and income and suggest applications of findings for both quantitative and qualitative follow-through.

Author

• GJ Hodson, Texas Women's University