Health/Long-Term Care
Two recent reports on family caregivers capture the size and nature of caregiving activity. In terms of the number of people caring for adult family members, the reports — the first from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS); and the second from the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) and AARP — peg the figure at 38 million and 59…
I’ve written before about my frustration with the focus of many demographic reports on the 65+ population as a whole rather than dividing the cohort between those ages 65-84 and 85+. This distinction is for two main reasons: the differing rates of care needs and the opposite demographic trends of the two groups. Disability (for…
