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The needs of women providing care to be focus of joint hearing 


By: Larry Craig
Craig Aging News, February 4, 2002

 

(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, announced today that he is looking forward to Wednesday's hearing about the needs of women who provide care for elderly loved ones.

In the last Congress Sen. Craig supported legislation that created the National Family Caregiver Support Program, an effort designed to help women and families providing care for family members.

Wednesday's hearing is a joint effort of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and the Aging Subcommittee of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.  It will be held February 6 in Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, starting at 9:30 a.m.

Among those scheduled to testify:

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (California)
U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan (Missouri)
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (New York)
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (Maine)
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (Louisiana)
U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas)
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (Michigan)
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (Washington)
Gail Gibson Hunt, Executive Director of the National Alliance for Caregiving
Dr. Laura Young, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Older Women's League

The U.S. Administration on Aging reports that despite the increased numbers of women in the workforce, and greater geographic distances between families, the overall degree of caregiver involvement has remained fairly constant for more than a decade.  The "average" caregiver is a 46-year-old female baby boomer who works outside the home and spends 18 hours a week caring for her 77-year-old mother.

 

Links:

National Institutes of Health caregiver info -

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/caregivers.html

U.S. Administration on Aging caregiver facts -

http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=892

 

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