AARP has issued a report on the cost of family caregiving across the US, with breakdowns by state. The full report is here: http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/ltc/i51-caregiving.pdf
It confirms what we all knew: about 2/3 of all such care is provided by females, and it is enormous in terms of loss of career and compensation and the caregiver’s own retirement funding.
Links to synopses and descriptions of the report can be found here: http://www.aarp.org/relationships/caregiving/info-07-2011/valuing-the-invaluable.html
:- Doug.
