Just 27% of unpaid caregivers for someone with cognitive impairment use caregiver support services. However, 78% of total poll respondents report that this caregiving is either very stressful, or somewhat stressful.

These findings were reported in “National Poll On Healthy Aging: Dementia Caregivers” by researchers from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. The researchers surveyed 2,131 randomly selected older adults aged 50-80 years. Respondents were selected from GfK's KnowledgePanel, which closely resembles the U.S. population.

The overall completion rate was 77% among panel members contacted to participate. Of these respondents, 148 . . .

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Disability Support & Long Term Care Services

Disability and long-term care refers to institutional and community-based care that support individuals with activities of daily living and services related to age or disability. Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the changes and challenges affecting the disability support and long-term care market markets—the move to managed care and subsequently value-based care, the shift to home- and community-based care, the increase in the aging population, and new workforce challenges.


Approximately 44.68 million U.S. civilians of all ages living in the community reported one or more disabilities in 2023, representing 13.5% of the noninstitutionalized population. Among adults aged 18 and older, the rate rises to approximately 16%. The analysis is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), which reaches approximately 4.7 million people annually with a response rate of about 85%. The most commonly reported disability type was ambulatory… Read