New Caregiver Brief: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren

Cover of a report on a blue background with text reading: National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Family Support (NCFS) Caregiver Profile: A Closer Look at Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren

Millions of Americans provide care to others each day, supporting aging parents, young and adult children and  grandchildren, spouses and partners, siblings, and other friends and relatives. NCFS has leveraged large, national datasets to construct a detailed profile of different types of caregivers, highlighting both current knowledge and key gaps.

A new brief from the Center presents data and profiles grandparents as caregivers, and care recipients, and highlights the changing status and roles of this important cohort. Learn more and download the full brief.