A 2026 study of 250 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) found that family burden was strongly tied to lower social support, lower family quality of life, and lower happiness. In the structural model, the burden-happiness link was explained by perceived support and family quality of life rather than a direct burden-to-happiness …
A 430-caregiver study in Kathmandu found caregiving burden in 65.3% of family caregivers of older adults with disability, with adjusted predictors clustering around low economic status, 8 or more daily care hours, and severe impairment in activities of daily living.1 Research Highlights Burden was the majority experience: 65.3% of 430 family caregivers reported caregiving burden …
A 2026 descriptive study documented 24 major cultural adaptations to the New York University Caregiver Intervention-Enhanced Support (NYUCI-ES) for Chinese and Korean American dementia caregivers. The work is not an outcomes report yet; it is a careful map of how an evidence-based caregiver intervention had to change before it could plausibly fit East Asian immigrant …
A 2026 mixed-methods preprint found that iSupport-Malaysia, a multimedia web-based dementia caregiver psychoeducation program, reached a good System Usability Scale score of 74.3. That is enough to justify pilot testing, but not enough to claim caregiver mental-health benefit: 33.3% of usability-test participants failed sign-up, 20.0% failed search, and Loh et al. did not measure burden, …