Reuters (3/7, Crist) reported that “nearly one in five caregivers who support ill family members or friends describe their own health as fair or poor, according to a new U.S. study” published in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In that analysis, researchers found “overall, about one in five participants had provided care to a family member or friend in the previous 30 days, and another 17% expected to become caregivers in the next two years.” The study also discovered “nearly half of unpaid caregivers were under age 45.”
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— “Informal caregivers often in poor health themselves, “Carolyn Crist, Reuters, March 7, 2020