Report Type: ILC Brief
Language: English
Pub Date: 2009
Pages: 7
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About the ReportNotwithstanding the contributions by several organizations and governmental agencies, most experts agree that more needs to be done to support boomer women and other family caregivers. The reliance on family
caregivers in home settings has increased relative to formal care in recent years, and larger proportions of care
recipients have high levels of disability. Critical as the situation is, nationally there seems to be little sense of
urgency or even awareness of the growing needs of caregivers—particularly of boomer women. This caregiving brief reviews the physical and emotional health consequences of providing care by boomer women. Boomers are quite different from previous generations of women in a number of respects, with the potential for significantly greater negative health outcomes. Financial and social consequences of caregiving on boomer women are also discussed.
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