This graph shows the share of adults with caregiving experience who provide or had provided different types of ongoing living assistance or home health services in the U.S. as of 2018. Around 85 percent of respondents aged 40 years and older stated they had provided household assistance by shopping for groceries.
Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018
Loading statistic...
Basic Account
Get to know the platform
You only have access to basic statistics.
Starter Account
The ideal entry-level account for individual users
- Instant access to 1m statistics
- Download in XLS, PDF & PNG format
- Detailed references
$199 USD / Month *
Professional Account
Full access
Business Solutions including all features.
* Prices do not include sales tax.
Other statistics that may interest you Caregivers in the U.S.
Caregivers
5
- Basic Statistic Distribution of informal unpaid caregivers in the U.S. from 2015-2017, by age
- Basic Statistic Distribution of U.S. informal unpaid caregivers from 2015 to 2017, by ethnicity
- Basic Statistic Share of informal unpaid caregivers in the U.S. who were women 2015-2017, by state
- Basic Statistic Number of years caregivers in the U.S. expected to provide care for as of 2019
- Basic Statistic U.S. caregivers that felt select emotions during caregiving as of 2019
Tasks and expenses
7
- Basic Statistic U.S. caregivers providing select living assistance or home health services in 2018
- Basic Statistic Duration of care for recipient in the U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Number of hours per day caregivers in the U.S. spent providing care as of 2019
- Basic Statistic Hours of care provided for care recipients in the U.S. 2019
- Basic Statistic Hours of distance from caregiver to care recipient in the U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Required travel time to patients for caregivers in the U.S. as of 2019
- Premium Statistic Percentage of U.S. caregivers' monthly budget used for caregiving costs as of 2019
Impact of caregiving
4
- Premium Statistic Personal sacrifices U.S. caregivers made as a result of caregiving as of 2018
- Basic Statistic Financial sacrifices U.S. caregivers made as a result of caregiving as of 2018
- Premium Statistic Health care sacrifices U.S. caregivers made as a result of caregiving as of 2018
- Basic Statistic Ways U.S. caregivers coped with the difficulties of caregiving as of 2018
Impact on employment
4
- Basic Statistic Share of U.S. informal unpaid caregivers with fulltime/part-time employment 2015-2017
- Basic Statistic Workplace impacts in the U.S. due to informal caregiving 2019
- Premium Statistic Workplace benefits in the U.S. for informal caregivers 2019
- Premium Statistic U.S. share of people freelancing who are caregivers 2020, by type of caregiving
Recipients
8
- Basic Statistic Number of care recipients of caregivers in the U.S. 2019
- Basic Statistic Main problem of care recipient in the U.S. as identified by caregiver 2019
- Basic Statistic Main problem of informal care recipient in the U.S. by recipient age 2019
- Basic Statistic Individual caregiving prevalence in the U.S. by age of recipient 2019
- Basic Statistic Age of predominant care recipients in the U.S. 2019
- Basic Statistic Age of predominant care recipient in the U.S. by age of caregiver 2019
- Basic Statistic Distribution of caregivers in the U.S. as of 2019, by patient age and status
- Basic Statistic Care recipient relation to caregiver in the U.S. 2019
Alzheimer's/dementia caregivers
6
- Basic Statistic Ages of Alzheimer/dementia caregivers in the U.S. in 2023
- Basic Statistic Alzheimer and other dementia caregivers' unpaid care in the U.S. 2011-2023
- Basic Statistic Leading U.S. states by number of Alzheimer/dementia caregivers 2023
- Basic Statistic Leading U.S. states by unpaid care given by Alzheimer/dementia caregivers 2023
- Basic Statistic Leading U.S. states by value of unpaid care given by dementia caregivers 2023
- Basic Statistic Share of caregivers for Alzheimer's and dementias with work-related change U.S. 2017
Further related statistics
19
- U.S. caregivers who learnt caregiving assistance in various ways in 2017
- U.S. caregivers personal feelings about providing care in 2017
- U.S. caregivers share of missed work time for caregiving as of 2017
- U.S. caregivers feelings about providing care in 2017, by recipient mental condition
- U.S. caregivers support from employers in 2017, by gender
- Adults who needed help with ADL U.S. 2014, by number of chronic conditions
- Largest U.S. not-for-profit senior living organizations for independent living 2022
- Largest U.S. not-for-profit senior living for nursing care beds 2022
- Location of death among Canadian home care clients from 2016-2017, by client type
- Location of death among Canadian home care clients from 2016-2017, by province
- Palliative care among Canadians with chronic illness 2016-2017, by type of care
- Italy: share of elderly individuals receiving home health cares 2017, by region
- Share of US adults worried about surprise high medical bill 2019, by area
- Integrated home care services provided by pharmacies in Italy 2018
- Influential factors for purchasing home health care products among U.S. consumer 2019
- Rresence of automated car on the roads when you are a scooter rider in Poland 2019
- Comfort to be in presence of automated car on the roads as a pedestrian Poland 2019
- Main reasons why the people do not go to library by age Spain 2019
- Population attending libraries by educational level Spain 2019
Further Content: You might find this interesting as well
Statistics
- U.S. caregivers who learnt caregiving assistance in various ways in 2017
- U.S. caregivers personal feelings about providing care in 2017
- U.S. caregivers share of missed work time for caregiving as of 2017
- U.S. caregivers feelings about providing care in 2017, by recipient mental condition
- U.S. caregivers support from employers in 2017, by gender
- Adults who needed help with ADL U.S. 2014, by number of chronic conditions
- Largest U.S. not-for-profit senior living organizations for independent living 2022
- Largest U.S. not-for-profit senior living for nursing care beds 2022
- Location of death among Canadian home care clients from 2016-2017, by client type
- Location of death among Canadian home care clients from 2016-2017, by province
- Palliative care among Canadians with chronic illness 2016-2017, by type of care
- Italy: share of elderly individuals receiving home health cares 2017, by region
- Share of US adults worried about surprise high medical bill 2019, by area
- Integrated home care services provided by pharmacies in Italy 2018
- Influential factors for purchasing home health care products among U.S. consumer 2019
- Rresence of automated car on the roads when you are a scooter rider in Poland 2019
- Comfort to be in presence of automated car on the roads as a pedestrian Poland 2019
- Main reasons why the people do not go to library by age Spain 2019
- Population attending libraries by educational level Spain 2019
AP-NORC. (October 15, 2018). Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/
AP-NORC. "Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018." Chart. October 15, 2018. Statista. Accessed May 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/
AP-NORC. (2018). Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/
AP-NORC. "Percentage of Adults with Caregiving Experience Who Had Provided The following Types of Caregiving Assistance as of 2018." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 Oct 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/
AP-NORC, Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/ (last visited May 21, 2024)
Percentage of adults with caregiving experience who had provided the following types of caregiving assistance as of 2018 [Graph], AP-NORC, October 15, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/832072/living-assistance-or-home-health-services-by-older-american-caregivers/