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Chart 1 Caregivers most often care for a family member, but friends provide care as well

This chart shows horizontal bars for 9 different categories, each representing the relationship of seniors to their caregivers of 45 years of age and older. The senior primary care recipients are mothers, fathers, mother-in-laws, spouses, father-in-laws, friends, other relatives, neighbours, and others (which contains a small percentage of caregivers who do not fall into any of these other categories). Each of these categories has been identified as belonging in one of two groups: close family members consisting of parents, parents-in-law, and spouses; and other relationships to caregivers made up of friends, other relatives, neighbours and others. In the chart, each bar shows the percentage of the total family and friend relationships which each category of caregiver represents. The data shows that mothers are the most common primary recipients of care (37%), followed by friends (14%), fathers (12%), other relatives (11%), mother-in-laws (9%), spouses (7%), neighbours (5%), father-in-laws (4%), and other caregivers (2%). Due to rounding, totals might not add up to 100.