Purpose: Family caregivers comprise the backbone of long-term-care provision in the United
States, yet little is known about how the composition and experience of family caregiving has …

Abstract The 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey and Informal Caregivers Survey
provided data for the first national estimates of informal caregivers to noninstitutionalized …

Informal family care giving has been a traditional mainstay of care for the frail elderly. As the
Baby Boomers approach retirement and old age, it is not clear that society can continue to …

Abstract Purpose of Study To assess trends in family caregiving between 1999 and 2015.
Design and Methods We construct nationally representative profiles of community-dwelling …

Informal caregiving—unpaid help primarily provided by spouses and children—has long
been the most common source of long-term care for older persons with disability in the …

After a quarter century of research on the elderly and their families, and increasing attention
from policymakers in the public and private sector as well as from the mass media, the …

Purpose: The article seeks to identify patterns of service utilization among informal
caregivers of frail older adults. In particular, the study examined determinants that explain …

Objectives To estimate the number of caregivers providing assistance to community‐
dwelling older persons with and without dementia and with or without substantial disability; …

The number of US adults ages sixty-five and older who are living with dementia is
substantial and expected to grow, raising concerns about the demands that will be placed …

This study reports on the care provided to (41) non-institutionalized frail older persons by
their children and/or grandchildren. The study is based on a population of frail elderly …