Opinion: Caring for young caregivers, a hidden population
The intersection of the mental health crisis among young Americans and the growing burden of unpaid caregiving is generating an expanding, particularly vulnerable, and unacknowledged population: young people who act as caregivers for siblings with special health care needs, physically or mentally ill parents, ailing grandparents, or other loved ones.
Of the estimated 48 million caregivers in the U.S., an estimated 14 million are under the age of 24. The growing burden of unpaid caregiving is increasingly falling on young people.
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