Astonishing Data about the Age of Caregivers in America
Very interesting excerpt about the astonishing data about caregiving, how elderly are caregivers for other elders and caregiver age of Americans from the Journal of American Society on Aging: New American Gothic: Older Americans as caregivers. California residents should carefully review these:
“Although this is the first issue of Generations devoted entirely to older adults as caregivers, such caregiving is not new. The average age of caregivers in the United States is just one year shy of AARP membership—age 49—and the Family Caregiver Alliance (2018) reports that more than one-third of all caregivers have reached age 65. Furthermore, data from The Partnership for Solutions (2004) show that the number of hours dedicated to caregiving is highest among the oldest age groups; the average caregiver ages 75 and older is providing more than thirty hours of care per week.
