The National Institute on Aging will provide funding for research conducted by Arizona State University to study caregivers of dementia patients who have died.
A grant of more than $700,000 will go to ASU’s Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.
Professor Zachary Baker is the study’s principal investigator.
“The study’s trying to collect the biggest sample of them that we’ve ever collected to try to better understand who’s going to do well and who’s not going to do so well," he said.
Baker added that up to 25% of caregivers experience clinical depression and loneliness.
