Men who are caregivers need directions
Photo credit: Handout | Gary Barg, editor-in-chief of Today's Caregiver magazine, has been holding caregiver conferences around the country since 1998 and has seen the number of men at his events grow from about 20 percent to more than 40 percent today.
The family caregiver has typically been a woman, but it is no longer atypical when that role is performed by a man.
In 2001, a study by the Family Caregiver Alliance estimated that as few as 25 percent of caregivers were men. By 2009, an AARP study put the number of male caregivers at 40 percent. Now, a new Pew survey found that as many as 45 percent of caregivers are men.
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