The News
Grandkids Don't Wear Out Grandma After All
Science Daily — Despite previous research findings that showed negative health impacts on grandmothers who care for their grandchildren, new research conducted by Linda Waite, the Lucy Flower Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and researchers at three other universities shows caring for grandchildren generally does not have dramatic and widespread negative impacts on grandparents’ health.
The research finds that some grandparents are already ill before they begin caring for grandchildren and others don’t experience a health change.
Waite and her colleagues based their work on a study of nearly 13,000 grandparents between the ages of 50 and 80.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.