Families Caring for an Aging America

by Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, et al.

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309448069
• ISBN13: 9780309448062
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"