Finding

Center on Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations

This new publication by Jennifer Caputo & Linda Waite from CHABLIS and Kathleen Cagney, now at MiCDA (University of Michigan) resulted from a CHABLIS pilot award:

Jennifer Caputo, Kathleen A. Cagney, Linda Waite. 2024. Keeping Us Young? Grandchild Caregiving and Older Adults’ Cognitive Functioning. Journal of Marriage and Family, 86(3):633-654.

“This study investigates longitudinal associations between providing care to grandchildren and cognitive functioning. It also examines heterogeneity in these relationships.”