01.04.2012                      09.Nissan. 5772

Studie:

‘Israelis stress less than Americans in home care’

Health Scan: Taking care of both elderly parents and kids is less stressful for Israeli couples than American couples, a new study finds.

Surprisingly, Israeli working couples in the “sandwich generation” who take care both of elderly parents and their own young children suffer less burnout than their American counterparts. This is a finding of a new Ben-Gurion University of the Negev study that looked at job and couple burnout rates in a cross-cultural comparison of Americans and Israelis….