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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 59:P185-P190 (2004)
© 2004 The Gerontological Society of America

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Positive Aspects of Alzheimer's Caregiving: The Role of Race

Lucinda Lee Roff1,, Louis D. Burgio2, Laura Gitlin3, Linda Nichols4, William Chaplin5 and J. Michael Hardin6

1 School of Social Work and Center for Mental Health and Aging, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
2 Department of Psychology and Center for Mental Health and Aging, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
3 Senior Health Institute and Center for Collaborative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4 VA Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
5 Department of Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York.
6 Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Address correspondence to Lucinda L. Roff, School of Social Work and Center for Mental Health and Aging, University of Alabama, P.O. Box 870314, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. E-mail: lroff{at}sw.ua.edu

We examined differences in positive aspects of caregiving (PAC) among 275 African American and 343 Caucasian caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease from the National Institutes of Health Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Care Health (REACH) study sites in Birmingham, Memphis, and Philadelphia. African Americans reported higher scores on PAC than did Caucasians. African Americans' higher religiosity partially mediated the relationship between race and PAC. Additional variables that contributed to their higher PAC scores were African Americans' lower anxiety, lower feelings of bother by the care recipient's behavior, and lower socioeconomic status.




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