Project Summary

Family caregivers are essential to the nations well-being and economy yet little information exists regarding the daily lives of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and non-ADRD caregivers across the diverse social partners who provide care.

The present study develops and administers new survey instruments in the Understanding America Study (UAS) (https://uasdata.usc.edu/index.php) to identify caregivers and implements new daily assessments and wearable devices to capture caregivers daily experiences and their links with daily emotional and physiological well-being among ADRD and non-ADRD family and non-family caregivers ranging in age from young adulthood to old age.

Understanding daily experiences and reactivity and the factors that predict greater resilience and vulnerability to stress in a national sample of caregivers will provide unprecedented information regarding potentially modifiable risk and protective factors for improving caregiver health and well-being.