Partner Care Arrangements and Well-Being in Mid- and Later Life: The Role of Gender Across Care Contexts.
In: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social, Jg. 77 (2022-02-03), Heft 2, S. 435-445
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Objectives: We assess gender moderation in the association between partner care arrangements and individuals' well-being, and the extent to which gender differences vary across European care contexts.
Methods: We use 2015 data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 3,465 couples aged 50+, where at least 1 partner receives care. We assess gender differences in individuals' life satisfaction and depressive symptoms across 5 partner care arrangements: solo-; shared formal; shared informal; outsourced formal; and outsourced informal care. We explore heterogeneity in the gendered associations across 4 care contexts: Northern, Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe.
Results: Sharing care with formal providers is associated with lower well-being among women than men, with a significant well-being "penalty" among Southern European women with partners in shared formal care. Outsourcing partner care to informal providers is associated with higher well-being than other care arrangements for men across care contexts, but with lower well-being for women in Southern Europe.
Discussion: Policies to support caregivers' well-being need to be sensitive to the coordination of formal and informal caregiving support for men and women in their respective care contexts.
(© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.)
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Partner Care Arrangements and Well-Being in Mid- and Later Life: The Role of Gender Across Care Contexts.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Floridi, G ; Quashie, NT ; Glaser, K ; Brandt, M |
Zeitschrift: | The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social, Jg. 77 (2022-02-03), Heft 2, S. 435-445 |
Veröffentlichung: | Washington, DC : published on behalf of the Gerontological Society of America by Oxford University Press ; <i>Original Publication</i>: Washington, DC : Gerontological Society of America, c1995-, 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1758-5368 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1093/geronb/gbab209 |
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