This MetLife Mature Market Institute study of the Caregiving Cost to Working Caregivers published in June 2011 analyzed data from the National Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to determine the extent to which older adult children provide care to their parents, the roles gender and work play in that caregiving, and the potential cost to the caregiver in lost wages and future retirement income as a result of their support. A snapshot of the key findings as well as a full downloadable report is
This article describes the challenges of selecting eldercare arrangements for African American elders that lived in pre-integration America. The author, Paula Span of the New York Times online, was contacted by an adult child wanting to tell her father’s story. The adult child was looking for residential or home care for her father when she concluded, “Race matters more in senior-care decisions than people may recognize, or care to talk about.”
