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US Prevalence And Predictors Of Informal Caregiving For Dementia

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: In 2010, 5.5 million US adults ages seventy and older received informal care, including 3.6 million with cognitive impairment or probable dementia. Adults with probable dementia received 171 hours of monthly informal care, versus 89 hours for cognitively impaired adults without dementia and 66 hours for cognitively normal adults.

Source: Health Affairs

DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0510

Authors: Esther M. Friedman, Regina A. Shih, Kenneth M. Langa, Michael D. Hurd

Institutions: RAND Corporation, University of Michigan, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Institute for Social Research

Language: English

Topic: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development