Archive for January, 2008

Caregiving

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

The National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) has announced the addition of new and updated data on its online resource, Caregiving Across the States.

The database includes a separate profile for each state and the District of Columbia.  Profiles contain the state’s background characteristics related to caregiving and aging, as well as information on publicly-funded caregiver suport programs.

State by state data can be found in the Selected State Background Characteristics sections of State Profiles and include:

  • Average Daily Cost for Adult Day Services
  • Average Hourly Costs for Home Health Care
  • Average Hourly Costs for Personal/Home Care
  • Number of Family Caregivers and Total Caregiving Hours
  • Eonomic Value of Caregiving
  • Average Daily Cost in a Nursing Home
  • Average Monthly Cost for Assisted Living
  • Number of Home Health Aides in the Workforce
  • Median Hourly Wages for Nursing Assistants, Home Helath Aides and Personal/Home Care Aides

Visit FCA’s Caregiving across the States webpage or copy and paste the following url into your browser: http://caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=12720

For more information, contact Amy Friedrich-Karnik at (800) 445-8106 or email afriedrich@caregiver.org