See Part 1 here.
Women are the Caregivers.
- Women provide the majority of care for those individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.
- 80 % of caregivers are women – usually the wife, daughter or daughter-in-law
- The Average women can expect to spend more time caring for and elderly parent than she spends caring for a child.
- 35% of women caring for the elderly are over 65 and 10% over 75.
- One in five women have a parent living with them and more than 50% of caregivers work outside the home.
- Caregivers, on the average, spend 69 hours per week caring for their loved ones
- 93% of the 1.5 million long termcare workers in the United States are women.
