Caregiver Burden

Caregiver burden is defined as “a multidimensional response to physical, psychological, emotional, social and financial stressors usually associated with the experience of caring” (Kasuya, Polgar-Bailey, Takeuchi, 2000). Caregiver stress and burden are mainly focused on the mothers of children with disability. Mothers meet with more stress and depression than fathers because mothers carry excessive amount of roles and responsibilities for caring their disabled child. The caregivers, especially the mothers did not get enough sleep, fail to eat regular and nutritious foodand also failing to get any medical assistance for themselves, if needed. They were also isolated from social activities and they have low quality of life. Caregiving for a child is …show more content…
If a disabled child needs extraordinary level of care from the caregivers, they will be forced to leave their jobs or reduce the working hours for meeting the child’s needs. The caregivers also force to spent higher amount of money for medical care, transportation, tutoring, private education, adaptive learning equipment and other health needs for caring the disabled child. Parents may have to save aside money in a trust fund for the care of their child when they pass away.It is more expensive to raise a child with disability than a normal child. So economic burden also play an important role in increasing the caregiver burden.
The everyday strain of caring and providing assistance for a disabled childmay leads to fatigue, taxing the emotional and physical energy of the