{"doi":"10.1093/geront/gnaf071","title":"Informal Care Receiving Among Older Adults: The Role of Multimorbidity and Intersectional Social Position","abstract":"BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Older adults with distinct multimorbidity combinations may require varying intensities of informal care and these needs may vary in important ways by race/ethnicity and sex. This study aims to examine informal care-receiving characteristics among older adults with varying multimorbidity patterns and race/ethnicity-sex characteristics. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 4,875 participants from the National Health and Aging Trends Study were included. Five clinically informed multimorbidity categories (no condition(s), somatic-only, depression without cognitive impairment, cognitive impairment without depression, both depression, and cognitive impairment) and 6 intersectional groups (non-Hispanic White female, non-Hispanic White male, non-Hispanic Black female, non-Hispanic Black male, Hispanic female, and Hispanic male) were assessed. Negative binomial regression was applied to explore the associations among multimorbidity groups, race/ethnicity and sex combinations, and informal care-receiving characteristics. RESULTS: Compared with the somatic-only multimorbidity group, individuals with no condition(s) received assistance with fewer ADL/IADL activities, whereas the cognitive impairment multimorbidity group received assistance with more ADL/IADL activities. Across race/ethnicity-sex groups, non-Hispanic White and Black males received assistance with fewer ADL/IADL activities, and no statistical significance was found for non-Hispanic Black females or Hispanics compared with non-Hispanic White female counterparts. Sensitivity analysis examining assistance with only ADL activities revealed the same pattern. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: The study highlighted the complexities of informal care-receiving characteristics among older adults, particularly among those with cognitive difficulties, and the ways in which race/ethnicity and sex are associated with care-receiving patterns. The findings highlight a need for person- and family-centered interventions sensitive to the diverse needs of care-recipients and caregivers.","journal":"The Gerontologist","year":2025,"id":550257,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8134,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":753301,"name":"Corey Nagel","orcid":"0000-0003-3725-500X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1389911,"name":"Siting Chen","orcid":"0000-0002-1875-9248","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":242044,"name":"Heather Allore","orcid":"0000-0001-7685-8175","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":271134,"name":"Ana Quiñones","orcid":"0000-0001-6554-7734","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1283162,"name":"Ruotong Liu","orcid":"0000-0002-4861-7160","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":58,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:54:16.596730Z","pmid":"40036606","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}