
Attitudes toward Family Care of Older Adults with and without Dementia
Sarah E. Patterson
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Co-Investigators
- Esther Friedman
Abstract
This MiCDA pilot study seeks to collect new data to enhance understanding of public attitudes toward care provided to older adults and whether the older adult having dementia changes these attitudes. The pilot complements a 2023 MiCDA Booster pilot to recruit understudied groups of caregivers to participate in focus groups aimed at developing new measures of caregiving motivation and attitudes toward care. This pilot work extends Patterson’s K99/R00 grant to study “Caregiving, Complex Family and Kinship Ties, and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.”
Outcomes
- Patterson, Sarah E. “Families Are Messy, Aren’t They?”: Defining Family and Care Expectations Among Family Caregivers. MiCDA Demography of Family Caregiving Network meeting. June 2024. Ann Arbor, MI.
- Patterson, Sarah E., & Morreale, Olivia. “Families Are Messy, Aren’t They?”: Defining Family and Care Expectations Among Family Caregivers. Poster presentation at the Population Association of America Conference. April, 2024. Columbus, OH.
- Patterson, Sarah E. “Families Are Messy, Aren’t They?”: Defining Family and Care Expectations Among Family Caregivers. Poster presentation at University of Michigan Aging Initiative Symposium: The Aging Brain – Risk and Resilience. March, 2024. Ann Arbor, MI.