family caregiver
Relative providing care
A family caregiver is someone who provides unpaid care for a relative with illness, disability, or age-related needs.
The term distinguishes informal caregiving from professional home health aides or nurses.
Family caregivers handle everything from medication management to bathing to emotional support: She quit her job to become her mother's full-time family caregiver.
The role often falls disproportionately on women.
- caretakerOne who maintains property
- eldercareSupport for the aged
- aging parentOlder relative who raised you
- nursingMedical caretaking profession
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
exhausted · bathing · feeding · medication · respite · burnout · support group · compassion · homebound · bedside · patience · sacrifice · unpaid labor · around the clock · diapers · wheelchair · dementia · hospice
- caregiversparents, mothers, babysitter, fathers, mother
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
family caregiverdependent
Requiring outside support
patient · ward · charge · elderly parent
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