Family caregivers

Carers for disabled people

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Family caregivers (also known as "family carers") are "relatives, friends, or neighbors who provide assistance related to an underlying physical or mental disability for at-home care delivery and assist in the activities of daily living (ADLs) who are unpaid and have no formal training to provide those services." A recent study says that 26.5% of all American adults today are family caregivers. A 2012 report by the Alzheimer's Association states that 15 million of those family caregivers are caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia. The value of the voluntary, "unpaid" caregiving service provided by caregivers was estimated at $310 billion in 2006 — almost twice as much as was actually spent on home care and nursing services combined.

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