family care
Relatives helping relatives
Family care is the support and assistance provided to family members who need help due to age, illness, or disability.
The term covers a range of activities—from daily tasks like bathing and feeding to managing medical needs and emotional support.
Family care may be provided by relatives or by professionals: She took time off work for family care.
The phrase also appears in policy contexts: family care leave, family care benefits.
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- home health aideDomestic medical support worker
- elderlyAdvanced in age
- aging parentsMother and father advancing in years
home · children · love · quality time · tenderness · nursing · assistance · comfort · warmth · generations · meals · meal prep · bathing · medication · doctor visits · patience · devotion · round the clock
- caregivingnurture, look after, watch over, tend to, mothering
- homemakingcooking, cleaning, laundry, recipes, baking
- pediatricspediatrician, pediatricians, pediatrics, well-child visit, well-child visits
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
family careinstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
nursing home care · residential care · nursing home · assisted living · hospital care
family careneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · self-reliance · independent living · state care · foster care
family, care, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, familiarization, unfamiliar