Geriatric Care Management Blog

In many of my postings on family caregivers I have talked about the really hard job of caring for an older adult or someone else with special needs.  At the personal level it truly is an enormous responsibility with great demands on a person’s time and their emotional well-being.  The most recent report on family caregiving published by AARP, however, really provides a sense of the huge and important work that caregivers are providing for their families in America today.  It is required reading for caregivers and their families. In AARP’s snapshot of caregiving in America, they estimate that as many as 42.1 million people in 2009 were providing some sort of help with activities of daily living to an older adult.  That number jumps about 50% when you look at all the people engaged in some sort of caregiving at any point during the year: 61.6 million people.  And these individuals are offering their support as unpaid caregivers. ...