We often refer to aging as a women’s issue, largely because women live longer than men. However, the connection between women and aging actually begins much earlier in life for many of us who are family caregivers. Decades before we reach old age, many boomer women are helping older relatives negotiate the challenges of aging.
A recent rerelease of data from The Caregiving Project for Older Americans puts a $360-billion price tag on the value of this family caregiving. Basically, that’s the cost that we as a nation would have paid in 2006 to provide the kind of “free” services and supports that family caregivers offered to aging relatives. Most significantly, the bulk of that contribution – between $207 billion and $263 billion – was provided by women.
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