Rosie Brooks
Rosie is currently an Assistant Editor working on the BMC Series. She joined BMC in 2018 after completing her bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science at the University of Warwick.
Is there a link between caregiving and female baby boomers’ mental health?
An analysis of global survey data, published in BMC Women’s Health, has found an association between depressive symptoms and caregiving in baby boomer women, which varies across countries and social, educational and employment status. This blog post discusses this phenomenon and the implications it may have for health policies.
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Caregiving, defined as providing unpaid assistance to relatives or acquaintances that have physical, psychological or developmental needs, is of great importance to society – unpaid care has been valued at $3.2 trillion in the US and £57 billion in the UK. However multiple studies have suggested that caregivers experience increased levels of psychological distress. Women are particularly implicated in this; across countries and cultures the responsibility of caregiving predominantly falls upon them. On average women do almost two and a half times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men.
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