"Among adults age 51or older more than one in ten are providing assistance with basic everyday activities to their parents." 12% are the primary caregiver. (p. 2)

[Editors note: Not all of the caregivers in this study were in the labor force.]

Center on an Aging Society, Georgetown University. (2005). Adult children: The likelihood of providing care for an older parent. (Data Profile No. 2). Washington, D.C.: Author. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from http://hpi.georgetown.edu/agingsociety/pdfs/CAREGIVERS2.pdf

"This Profile provides an overview of adult children who are primary caregivers to an older parent that needs assistance performing one or more basic everyday activities. Furthermore, this Profile examines adult children that have living parents but are not primary caregivers as well as adults without any living parents. Adult children, non-caregivers and adults without living parents could be caregivers in another capacity, such as a secondary caregiver or a caregiver to a spouse or sibling."

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