Dr. Christakis
Dr. Christakis
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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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We showed that you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but also when your partner falls ill.
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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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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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What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in really real ways, there can be a kind of spread of disease between people.
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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.
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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.