Care Transitions and Adult Day Services Moderate the Longitudinal Links between Stress Biomarkers and Family Caregivers’ Functional Health

摘要

BackgroundStress biomarkers have been linked to health and well-being. There are, however, few studies on how dysregulation in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) actually affects functional health among family caregivers of relatives with dementia. Further, it is not clear whether and how factors affecting caregiving stressor exposures such as care transitions and Adult Day Services (ADS) use may affect such association.