Carey Wexler Sherman, Noah Webster, and Toni Antonucci looked at social interactions and support networks for late-life remarried women who were caregivers to husbands with dementia. They found that stepchildren comprised the largest portion of negative interactions — adding to rather than helping with the stepmother’s caregiving burden.

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