Announcement
The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC), with support from the National Institute on Aging, announce the NHATS/NSOC Dementia Caregiving Conference that will focus on dementia caregiving and will be held May 2-3, 2022. Plans are being made for an in person meeting in Ann Arbor with hybrid options for attending. The goals of this conference are to bring together scholars interested in family and unpaid care for older adults living with dementia. Papers that compare caregivers for older adults with and without dementia, examine the effect of care on older adult’s health and wellbeing, examine interactions between family and paid caregiving, study caregiving issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlight the longitudinal features of NHATS and/or NSOC are especially of interest.