Most common reasons for employing a caregiver in Italy 2021, by age group
quite a financial burden for Italian households, who were spending 1.2 thousand euros per month on average on caregivers.
An increasing number of families in Italy resort to home caregivers to assist their elderly members. According to a survey carried out among a sample of these households, the main reason seemed to be the impossibility to personally assist their dear ones who were living in a different house. Another 30 percent of the respondents declared to live alone and not being able to take care of their house and themselves. These percentages, however, changed considerably and predictably according to the age of the respondents. For people older than 75 years, the share of non-self sufficient individuals jumped to 74 percent. On the other hand, respondents younger than 60 years mentioned more often the impossibility to assist relatives living with them or in other locations. This situation, however, represented