Now some new insights into the caregiving crisis in America.

A new report from Rand has found one group is especially struggling, those caring for veterans.

Lisa Desjardan has more. The Cadez-Jardin has more.

The National Survey was commissioned by the nonpartisan Elizabeth Dole Foundation and

conducted by the Rand Corporation.

They found those caring for military members or veterans are an increasingly large group and stretched increasingly thin.

The study estimates more than 14 million Americans are caring for a current or former service member.

Even with the Veterans Administration in place,

those families spend an average of nearly $9,000 a year out of pocket for care.

That as 39% of these caregivers are also raising a child and those

children are helping with at least one caregiving task.

Joining me to discuss this is former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the chairman of the Elizabeth

Dole Foundation Bob McDonald.

Now that figure, 14 million caregivers who have served, that's nearly triple what it was in 2014.

It was a shock to us, Lisa.

In 2011, actually, the research began,

that original study found 5.5 million caregivers, but the way we asked the question was it was a very simple single question, are you a caregiver?

This study, the methodology was a little bit different and we asked the questions of the behaviors of a caregiver.

Are you bathing the person you care for? Are you supplying their medications? Are you taking them the doctors? And what we discovered

was the real number is, as you said, 14.3 million and it was shocking to us how big it was.

In a way it wasn't surprising because And it was shocking to us how big it was.

In a way, it wasn't surprising because the population is aging.

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