Social and leisure engagement moderates the association between care partner distress and cognitive status of care recipients with dementia

Objectives Despite the established impact of care recipient cognitive impairment on care partner (CP) distress, limited quantitative research has explored how social and leisure engagement may moderate this relationship, offering a potential avenue for enhancing well-being in both care partners and recipients. The current study therefore examined the between- and within-dyad associations between cognitive impairment of persons with dementia (PwD) and their family CP's distress, and whether social and leisure activity moderated this relationship.