It is according to a paper by Wolf et al. (2025). They use the data of 2011-2022 from National Health and Aging Trends Studies (NHATS), which is connected to the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). Using these data, they find.
… The number of family care for the old adults helped increased by about six million between 2011 and 2022, which increased from 18.2 million to 24.1 million. In older adults receiving care, the size of the network was stable, on both points in time on the large adult per care.
We can disintegrate the number of carers on the basis whether the patient has dementia or not:
In 2022, 62.5% of the carers were women, 36.3% <55 years of age. What is the relationship of careful for the patient? Most -but not majority -the patient has adults.
Most of the careful episodes extending for 4 years or more have a long -term relationship for the most time care.
The paper has a lot of details on the carers, their characteristics, their roles and trends over time. You can read the full article here.
Data statement
NHATS is a national representative survey of American adults that is sixty -five and older than that attracts the medicare enrollment files for its samples frames. Information about a wide range of health and functioning related characteristics is collected during the in-Person interview. With the weight of the sample, NHats are designed to produce national representative estimates of the old population. The NSOC is administered to receive five relatives and unpaid assistants (after this as family carers) to receive assistance with domestic activities for self-care, mobility, or health or functioning causes. NSOC was administered by telephone in 2011 and by telephone and online in 2022. Each year, about 60 percent of people were invited to respond; With the weight of the sample, NSOC represents family carers of beneficiaries of sixty -five and older.
