Friday, February 10, 2012

Caregivers' Outlook May Vary by Race, Ethnicity

(HealthScout) UPDATED 2010-08-04
Racial and ethnic differences appear to affect the way that caregivers react to a loved one's death from Alzheimer's disease. Data on more than 600 caregivers found that those racial and ethnic differences remained true even after accounting for caregiver-patient relationships, caregiver health, and socioeconomic factors. Researchers found that white and Hispanic caregivers were three to five times more likely than black caregivers to say they were relieved by a patient's death. Whites were two times as likely to say they had achieved some type of "emotional acceptance" of the death.
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