© 1987 The Gerontological Society of America
Caregivers of the Frail Elderly: A National Profile1
2 Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building, Room 18A-55, Rockville, MD 20857
3 Office of Research, Health Care Financing Administration 6325 Security Boulevard, 2B14 Oak Meadows, Baltimore, MD 21207
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The 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey and Informal Caregivers Survey provided data for the first national estimates of informal caregivers to noninstitutionalized disabled elders. The descriptive profile confirmed previous research findings that informal caregivers are predominantly female, that a sizeable proportion is over age 65, and that a minority use formal services. There also was evidence for competing demands: 21% reported child care responsibilities, 9% indicated that they had quit their jobs, and 20% reported other work conflict.
Keywords: Informal care, Caregiving to aged
1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Society on Aging, San Francisco, CA, March, 1986. The authors are grateful for the programming assistance of Mark Guagliardo and Ase Sewall of Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland. The views contained in this paper are those of the authors and no official endorsement by the National Center for Health Services Research, the Health Care Financing Administration or the Department of Health and Human Services is intended or should be inferred.
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