granparent are also being called upon to serve as caregivers for their disabled grandchild an aging caregiver is often thought of as an aging parent caring for an adult child with a disability instead a new and growing population is beginning to garner the attention of research and is being referred to as the skip=generation caring for grandchildren and in some cases great-grandchildren caregivers of grandchildren with disability are overwhelmingly female primary minority mostly in their late 50 to early 60 with some high school education or a high school
diploma and from urban area in addition one study indicates that these grandparent caregivers provide daily care for the grandchild for an average of 7 years most of the children who are cared for by their grandparent are male with an average age of 4.83 year most of the grandchildren have multiple problems or disability the most common problem are learning disability development delays attention deficit hyperactivity disorder intellectual deficits speech or hearing problems and neurological problem