Caregiving

AARP research attaches $10 billion value to the estimated 5 million hours of unpaid care that family caregivers provided in 2021. 

The report highlights the growing scope and complexity of family caregiving and offers actions needed to address the many challenges of caring for parents, spouses, and other loved ones.

Latest AARP research attaches $1 billion value to the estimated 58 million hours of unpaid care provided by 62,000 family caregivers in 2021.

Updates are needed to improve North Carolina's guardianship laws

Latest AARP research attaches $2.8 Billion value to the estimated 157 million hours of unpaid care that family caregivers provided in 2021.

Are you, or a family member, living with memory loss or dementia? Do you work with people living with dementia?

Overwhelming, we prefer to age at homes if our health allows it so we can maintain connections with friends, loved ones, and communities, plus it costs significantly less.

Nursing home residents and caregivers are invited to share their experiences with the task force at an upcoming listening session near them. Sign up now!

Five bills filed in the Texas Legislature would help older Texans thrive.

The financial and emotional challenges of caring for a spouse wear on Sammamish resident Michael O’Connell. As the sole caregiver for his wife, who has Alzheimer’s, he wonders if their savings will last through her illness. They did all the right things you would expect of a solidly middle-class family, planning carefully for retirement, but he is facing a situation where their savings may not last. And, with a family history of Parkinson’s disease, he worries about how he will be fair if something happens to him. “It keeps me up night and day,” says Michael.