Fast Facts

November is National Caregiver Month!

The value of the services family caregivers provide for“free,”when caring for older adults, is estimated to be $375 billion a year. That is almost twice as much as is actually spent on homecare and nursing home services combined ($158 billion).

Approximately 85% of people with dementia and chronic illness are cared for exclusively in their own homes. On average, their loved ones provide 12 hours of assistance a day.

During the 2009 economic downturn, 1 in 5 family caregivers had to move into the same home with their loved ones to cut expenses.

... and Native American Heritage Month! About 59 percent of tribes have a tribal judicial system.

The median age on reservations is 29, while the median age for the total U.S. population is 38.

American Indian and Alaska Natives operated approximately 60,083 farms, comprising over 58.7 million acres of land, and conducted $3.33 billion in total sales, with $1.43 billion from crops and $2.11 billion from livestock and poultry.

American Indians and Alaska Natives are more likely to experience violent crimes at a rate of two and a half times higher than the national average, and in comparison to all other racial/ethnic groups, they are two times more likely to experience sexual assault crimes. There are 305 forested Indian reservations which encompass 18 million acres of forestland, with 6 million commercial timberlands, 4 million commercial woodlands, and 8 million noncommercial timberlands and woodlands.

Sources:

“Caregiver Statistics: Statistics on Family Caregivers and Family Caregiving.” Caregiver Action Network. Accessed October 24, 2022. https://www.caregiveraction.org/ resources/caregiver-statistics. October 24, 2022. https://www.carewell.com/ resources/blog/state-of-the-caregiver-2022/.

Simon, Judy. “Caring for YOUR Nutrition.” ACL. gov. Administration for Community Living. Accessed October 24, 2022. https://acl. gov/sites/default/files/news%202020-10/ Caring%20for%20YOUR%20Nutrition.pdf. “Indian Country Demographics.” National Congress of American Indians. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://www.ncai.org/ about-tribes/demographics.