Family Caregivers with Disabilities 

Overview

This factsheet, leveraging data from Caregiving in the US 2025, shows that family caregivers with disabilities face compounded challenges that significantly impact their financial stability, health, and wellbeing. These family caregivers tend to have lower household incomes and report substantially more negative financial impacts from caregiving than caregivers without disabilities. They experience greater strain across all dimensions—physical, emotional, and financial— while spending more time on caregiving responsibilities.

Many are sandwich generation caregivers, managing their own health conditions while caring for a child under 18 and an adult with complex needs. Despite these challenges, many continue working while providing care, highlighting their resilience and the critical need for targeted and accessible support services.