The Impact of Caregiving Intensity and Religiosity on Spousal Caregivers' Health and Mortality in the US (2004-2014).

Objectives: Despite adverse physical and mental health outcomes related to caregiving, family caregivers also experience lower mortality rates compared to noncaregivers. However, research has not yet examined the role of caregiving intensity and religiosity with health and mortality among spousal caregivers.

Methods: Data include spousal caregivers (=5,214 person-wave observations) and noncaregivers (=50,311 person-wave observations) from the Health and Retirement Study (2004-2014 waves).

Psychometric Analysis of the 2016 Ohio Long-Term Care Facilities Family Satisfaction Scale.

Although the Ohio Family Satisfaction Survey (OFSS) has been around since 2002 as an important indicator of long-term care facilities' performance, the validity of this scale has not been evaluated. Using the Robust Maximum Likelihood Estimator Method in Mplus, psychometric analysis involving second-order construct validity or hierarchical construct validity was conducted using responses from 1636 facilities including nursing homes and residential care facilities ( = 32,424). The results showed that OFSS retained the 7-factor structure for the 7 domains and the factor loadings for each domain were above 0.

Family Satisfaction: Differences Between Nursing Homes and Residential Care Facilities.

This study compared differences in overall family satisfaction, specific satisfaction domains, and correlates of satisfaction between nursing homes (NHs) and residential care facilities (RCFs), using data from the 2016 Ohio Long-Term Care Family Satisfaction Survey. Satisfaction was higher for RCFs overall and within nearly every domain, with the largest difference observed in the domain. In both facility types, higher satisfaction was associated with male respondents, older respondent age, White race, less-frequent visitation, longer anticipated length of stay, less help provided during visits, smaller facilities, lower Medicaid-reliant resident percentage, and nonprofit status.

Informal Caregiving and All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Population-Based Studies.

Using the random-effects meta-analysis model, we investigated the effect of informal caregiving on all-cause mortality across 12 longitudinal population-based studies (seven United States; five international: United Kingdom, Northern Ireland [2], Japan, and Australia). Across the studies, the combined effect of informal caregiving on all-cause mortality was 16% lower in favor of caregivers. Subgroup analyses revealed that the relationship between informal caregiving and all-cause mortality was not significant among the U.