US Prevalence And Predictors Of Informal Caregiving For Dementia. Friedman, E., M., Shih, R., A., Langa, K., M., & Hurd, M., D. Health affairs (Project Hope), 34(10):1637-1641, 10, 2015.
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In 2010, 5.5 million US adults ages seventy and older received informal care, including 3.6 million with cognitive impairment or probable dementia. Adults with probable dementia received 171 hours of monthly informal care, versus 89 hours for cognitively impaired adults without dementia and 66 hours for cognitively normal adults.
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