Aging Care LLC

10 Statistics on Caregivers:

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1. The proportion of adult children providing personal care and/or financial assistance to a parent has more than tripled over the past 15 years.
2. Almost 40% of all U.S. workers are more involved with caring for a parent than a child.
3. Studies estimate 2 out of 3 informal caregivers are women, many of whom are middle-aged mothers with children or adult children living in their households
4. Today, the average American woman can expect to spend 18 years caring for an older family member, compared to 17 for her children.
5. In 2014, the 15.7 million family and other unpaid caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias provided an estimated 17.9 billion hours of unpaid care.
6. This number represents an average of:
   21.9 hours of care per caregiver per week, or
   1,139 hours of care per caregiver per year
7. 80% of care provided in the community is provided by unpaid caregivers (most often family members), while fewer than 10 percent of older adults receive all of their care from paid caregivers.
8. For women, the total cost impact of caregiving equals $324,044.
   For men, the average total impact equals $283,716.
9. These numbers reflect:
   Wages lost while not working — typically for about five years
   Lower wages after returning to the workforce with rusty skills.
10. When foregone pension and Social Security benefits are counted, the out-of-pocket losses roughly double