Caregiving profile by country, SAGE Wave 1 (2007/10)
| Ghana n=143 n (%)* | India n=490 n (%)* | Russian Federation n=270 n (%)* | |
| Types of relationship with care recipient | |||
| Spouse/partner | 40 (29.4) | 291 (59.1) | 172 (57.0) |
| Daughter/son or daughter/son in-law | 56 (37.3) | 112 (24.5) | 41 (12.6) |
| Parent/parent in-law | 19 (19.3) | 62 (11.6) | 50 (24.1) |
| Other | 19 (14.0) | 25 (4.8) | 7 (6.3) |
| Number of people in household needing care | |||
| 1 | 101 (73.7) | 434 (83.8) | 255 (96.4) |
| 2 | 19 (16.2) | 47 (11.7) | 11 (2.7) |
| 3+ | 23 (10.1) | 9 (4.5) | 4 (0.9) |
| Reasons for needing care | |||
| Health-related reason | 88 (72.3) | 467 (95.6) | 230 (88.9) |
| Other reason | 47 (27.7) | 23 (4.4) | 40 (11.1) |
| Types of care provided** | |||
| Financial | 98 (68.8) | 239 (54.5) | 62 (23.7) |
| Social/Emotional | 67 (51.8) | 252 (47.3) | 206 (72.1) |
| Health | 62 (46.6) | 281 (63.2) | 88 (39.7) |
| Physical | 58 (47.0) | 227 (46.0) | 137 (52.2) |
| Personal care | 29 (23.7) | 205 (45.4) | 162 (67.9) |
| Types of personal care†‡ | |||
| Bathing | 20 (70.8) | 131 (58.3) | 128 (80.0) |
| Eating | 10 (33.2) | 127 (64.9) | 56 (33.1) |
| Dressing | 17 (60.4) | 100 (59.1) | 94 (59.8) |
| Toileting | 14 (49.6) | 112 (64.5) | 42 (20.1) |
| Moving around | 10 (39.5) | 110 (47.7) | 98 (56.1) |
| Incontinence | 8 (30.7) | 50 (30.3) | 12 (7.8) |
| Caregiving duration | |||
| <30 days (1 month) | 16 (10.5) | 159 (34.1) | 54 (23.2) |
| 1 to < 6 months | 10 (8.8) | 118 (25.1) | 25 (7.3) |
| >6 months | 115 (80.7) | 213 (40.8) | 191 (69.5) |
| Received any kind of support (yes) | 30 (24.1) | 77 (11.9) | 68 (20.4) |
| Support received by caregiversठ| |||
| Financial | 25 (20.2) | 72 (11.0) | 31 (8.0) |
| Emotional | 4 (3.2) | 16 (2.4) | 45 (10.9) |
| Health | 4 (4.0) | 10 (1.6) | 24 (4.7) |
| Physical | 7 (6.2) | 10 (1.2) | 24 (7.0) |
| Personal | 2 (1.8) | 12 (1.7) | 21 (8.7) |
| Other | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.02) | 0 |
| Source of support† ‡ | |||
| Family outside household | 26 (85.5) | 55 (68.2) | 57 (88.7) |
| Neighbours/community | 4 (13.6) | 33 (40.4) | 11 (12.3) |
| Government | 0 | 3 (2.4) | 20 (14.4) |
| Church | 2 (7.8) | 0 | 2 (3.6) |
| NGO | 0 | 0 | 2 (2.7) |
| Other | 2 (5.3) | 0 | 3 (2.7) |
*Weighted %.
**For caregivers of more than one adult in the household, relationship defined in the following order, spouse, child, parent, child-in-law and parent-in-law and duration accumulated across all care recipient.
†Among those reporting providing personal care.
‡Participants answered yes/no for each option independently.
§Among those reporting receiving any type of support.
SAGE, Study on global AGEing and adult health.