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