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Caregiving

Caregiving is a relational practice within family and health contexts involving the provision of instrumental, emotional, and often hands-on support to dependent individuals, primarily distinguished by its unpaid, sustained, and personally accountable nature across the life course.

36.6K

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1.7M

Citations

77.1K

Authors

11.7K

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2017–2026

11.3K

Variants

Caregiving In Families

Parents

Children

Publications

36.6K

Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden

Steven H. Zarit, Karen E. Reever, Julie Bach-Peterson · The Gerontologist · 1980 · 5.8K citations · Full text

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Staff Burn‐Out

Herbert J. Freudenberger · Journal of Social Issues · 1974 · 5K citations

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Caregiving and the Stress Process: An Overview of Concepts and Their Measures

Leonard I. Pearlin, Joseph T. Mullan, Shirley J. Semple et al. · The Gerontologist · 1990 · 4.7K citations

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Caregiving as a Risk Factor for Mortality

Richard Schulz, Scott R. Beach · JAMA · 1999 · 3.4K citations

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Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, June 24–30, 2020

Mark É. Czeisler, Rashon I. Lane, Emiko Petrosky et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report · 2020 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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Authors

77.1K

  1. RS
    Richard Schulz

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    127 publications · 14.9K citations

    65

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  2. SH
    Steven H. Zarit

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    124 publications · 17.1K citations

    57

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  3. WE
    William E. Haley

    University of South Florida, United States

    84 publications · 10.7K citations

    55

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  4. DG
    Dolores Gallagher‐Thompson

    Stanford University, United States

    79 publications · 7K citations

    44

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  5. LN
    Laura N. Gitlin

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    87 publications · 6.3K citations

    44

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Institutions

11.7K

  1. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    85 h-index

    834 publications

    68.6K citations

  2. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    82 h-index

    1.1K publications

    62K citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    82 h-index

    963 publications

    59.1K citations

  4. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    81 h-index

    1.1K publications

    67.5K citations

  5. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    80 h-index

    888 publications

    80.1K citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    79 h-index

    1.3K publications

    67.7K citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    79 h-index

    1.1K publications

    59.1K citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    77 h-index

    833 publications

    51.8K citations

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Venues

  1. The Gerontologist

    819 publications · 84.8K citations

    142

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  2. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

    365 publications · 31.6K citations

    100

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 1.3K publications · 51K citations

    91

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  4. Journal of Advanced Nursing

    JAN · 544 publications · 29.8K citations

    89

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  5. The Journals of Gerontology Series B

    250 publications · 24.6K citations

    88

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