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HEALTH & SOCIAL WORK
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 109-118Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/25.2.109
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African Americans; caregiving; grandparents; health; kinship care
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Social workers are seeing, in health care settings, an increasing number of grandparent caregivers among their clients. A disproportionate number of these are African American. This article compares the demographic and physical and mental health characteristics of African American grandparents who are raising their grandchildren with noncaregiving African American grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households (1992-94). Caregivers reported significantly higher levels of limitations in four of five activities of daily living (ADL) and were almost twice as likely as their peers to report clinically relevant levels of depression.
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