Long term care is a women’s issue

A study by Genworth Financial indicates long term care impacts women, both as care providers
and recipients, more profoundly than men.  Genworth’s study, The Impact of Long Term Care on Women — An Analysis of Women as Care Providers and Care Recipients, found women were 60 percent more likely than men to enter a nursing home at some point in their lives.
It also documented that women may experience large financial sacrifices in
their roles as America’s predominant unpaid care providers. The new
gender-specific long term care research was presented to the Congressional
Women’s Caucus in a Capitol Hill briefing today.

Key findings of Genworth’s study of the impact of long term care onwomen include:   

• Estimates suggest there are around 23 million unpaid care providers in the U.S.  Seven in ten are women.   
• Nearly one in five unpaid caregivers (19 percent) in America provide “constant care” of at least 40 hours of care per week.  Of those who provided constant care, 80 percent are women.   
• Women 65 years or older today have a 44 percent chance of entering a nursing home at some point in their lives compared to 27 percent of men.   

Get more info via PR Newswire.  Sadly, the full report does not seem to be available.