Karen Glaser

TL;DR: Considerable variability in both trends and levels of older people's living arrangements was seen especially between north-western and southern European countries, and variations mirrored contrasts in attitudes towards residential care and parent-child coresidence between the countries.

TL;DR: Adolescence and young adulthood are associated with high levels of caregiver burden in both disorders; in ASD, the level is comparable to that reported by persons caring for individuals with a brain injury.

TL;DR: Investigating socio-demographic differences in the onset and progression of disability in a cohort of people aged 55-69 in 1988-9 and in 1994 found disability can be dynamic, although deterioration is more usual than improvement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the longitudinal association between partnership dissolution and two types of support for 1,966 people aged 70 or more years: (i) informal support from children in the form of contacts and help (e.g. household assistance including care), and (ii) formal support from community care services (i.e. health visitor or district nurse, home-help and meals-on-wheels).

TL;DR: A positive longitudinal association between grandchild care and health is found even after earlier life health and socio-economic conditions were taken into account, however, this significant association was found only for grandmothers, and not grandfathers.