The Relationship Between Caregiving and Mortality After Accounting for Time-Varying Caregiver Status and Addressing the Healthy Caregiver Hypothesis.

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Published in J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci on April 15, 2015

Authors

Lisa Fredman1, Jennifer G Lyons2, Jane A Cauley3, Marc Hochberg4, Katie M Applebaum5

Author Affiliations

1: Epidemiology Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts. lfredman@bu.edu.
2: Epidemiology Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts.
3: Epidemiology Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
4: Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
5: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

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