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Women make up 66.8% of long-term care service users for nursing home care, as opposed to 33.2% of men.
$274,044 = lost wages and Social Security benefits when women leave the labor force to care for ailing parents, spouse or family members.
Who is the “average” caregiver of long-term care? The “average” caregiver of long-term care is a woman, age 49, who works and spends 20 hours/week providing unpaid care to her aging mother over 5 years.