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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3364
igaa057.3364
Abstracts
Session 10320 (Late Breaking Poster)
Minority & Diverse Populations
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Caregiver’s Relationship Type and Race/Ethnic Group Comparisons in a Community-based Caregiver Support Program
Cho Jinmyoung 1 Smith Donald 2 Stevens Alan 1 1 
Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas, United States
2 
United Way’s Area Agency on Aging of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”915 916
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
In the past decades, a number of evidence-based interventions has been implemented to improve caregiver outcomes; however, limited attention to specific subgroups (e.g., racial/ethnic groups) still exists in dementia caregiver support interventions in community settings. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of caregiver’s race/ethnicity and relationship type to the care-recipient on the quality of life among caregivers. This study included 354 informal caregivers enrolled in REACH-TX, a community-based caregiver program, provided by the Alzheimer’s Association North Central Texas Chapter’s from November 2011 to June 2019. Propensity score matching extracted a subset of participants who enrolled in REACH-TX to balance caregivers from three race/ethnic groups (White: 171; African American: 103; Hispanic: 80). Five dimensions of quality of life (depression, caregiving burden, social support, self-care, and problem behaviors) were assessed at baseline and 6-month follow-up among spousal and adult-child caregivers by race/ethnic group. Generalized linear models showed that significant improvement on the five domains of quality of life among White child caregivers, whereas neither spousal nor child caregivers in African American group showed improvement on any domains after adjusting covariates (age, gender, risk levels, number of therapeutic contacts), These findings indicate that the responses to intervention components vary by race/ethnic group and relationship type. Advancing tailored dementia caregiver interventions to specific subgroup needs and unique context, especially for non-White caregivers, is needed to maximize the benefit of community resources and support for diverse caregivers.