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The Impact of Needing Extended Care

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We can’t emphasize this enough.

The need for long term care not only changes the life of the person needing care, but the lives of all the others who care about that person. Loved ones will have no choice but to provide care if other plans, professional caregivers and financing are not already in place.


Let’s take a look at the personal consequences of long term care – i.e., the extreme toll the impairment can take on the physical and emotional well-being of loved ones providing care. For unpaid family members providing care, life is completely disrupted.

 

Informal Care Cost

About 44 million Americans 18 years old and older are caregivers and provide unpaid labor that is worth at least $306
billion per year.


(Source: https://www.caregiver.org/caregiver-health)

Mental Health

40% to 70% of caregivers struggle with depression, particularly those who look after cognitively-impaired relatives.

(Source: https://www.caregiver.org/caregiver-health)

Physical Health

Elderly caregivers have a 63% higher mortality rate than non-caregivers of the same age, according to a study by JAMA.


(Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10605972)

Caregiver Needing Care

51% of caregivers take more medications because of providing care. 10% reported that they frequently misuse alcohol or prescription drugs.

 


(Source: http://www.caregiving.org/data/Caregivers%20in%20Decline%20Study-FINAL-lowres.pdf)

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