Sense of Coherence, Burden and Mental Health in Caregiving: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Increasing life expectancy and current trends in population aging is leading to higher levels of dependency for older people through a rise of disabilities leading to increases in care and resources to meet care demands (OECD, 2013). Most of this care is delivered by unpaid carers generally women, referred to in the literature as informal carers (Del-Pino-Casado et al., 2011). Caring for a dependent person has negative effects on carers ’ physical and psychological health, and is associated with high levels of subjective burden, posing carers at increased risk of experiencing clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety (Cooper et al., 2007; van der Lee et al., 2014).
Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Review article Source Type: research