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    • Long-Term Care Calculator: Compare Costs, Types of Service in Your Area

    Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

    This report estimates the economic value of family caregiving at $450 billion in 2009 based on 42.1 million caregivers age 18 or older providing an average of 18.4 hours of care per week to care recipients age 18 or older, at an average value of $11.16 per hour. This data is not collected by a government agency. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Health & Human Services.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2014-07-22
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
    Category Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 925de2c1-ac25-4f72-8cc6-ca1a6f4108ac
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/valuing-invaluable-2011-update-growing-contributions-and-costs-family-caregiving
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:015
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1a401789f7817e425508a5297eb7ce38cdae954da4a5c5d882ce110bccf8dd22
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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