This study was a beginning effort to clarify the different types of elder care and to understand which type of elder care, i.e., giving time or giving money, might be more closely associated with employed persons' health. Giving time, compared to giving money, to provide care may be weakly associated with emotional health (r = .05) and physical health (r = .04) as N = 2,269 (cf. rs of .00, .01); giving money may not be associated with either. Investigations of elder care and its consequences should be very specific when measuring this construct.
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