When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years.
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A spouse with cancer is generally not as burdensome for a partner as more disabling conditions such as dementia, where you combine both the stress of caring for the spouse and waning social support from your partner.Dr. Christakis
What it shows is that people are interconnected, and their health is interconnected, and seeing a person you love suffer, seeing them ill, harms you.
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The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.
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It's very hard to see someone you love who is sick it is hard to care for them, and it is hard on your health. People are interconnected, and their health is, too.
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People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors for ill health tobacco exposure, poverty. Here's another risk factor having an ill partner.
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