Caregiver Corner – The Economic Value of Family Caregiving

Do you know how many zeros are in one trillion dollars? 12! AARP’s newest report, Valuing the Invaluable 2026, finds that the value of unpaid caregivers’ contributions is now over 1 trillion dollars. That’s $1,000,000,000,000. This exceeds the total amount of federal, state, and local Medicaid spending ($932 billion).

Report | The Economic Value of Family Caregiving