Introduction
Caregiving takes many forms. Many of us help older, sick, or disabled family members and friends every day. We know we are helping, but we don't think of ourselves as people (who take care of people). We are glad to do this and feel rewarded by it, but if the demands are heavy, over time we can also become exhausted and stressed. We think we should be able to handle caregiving roles on top of busy work and family schedules and begin to feel guilty and depressed as our the ability to work hard for a long time reduces/lessens.
About 44 million INDIANS provide 37 billion hours of unpaid, "informal" care each year for adult family members and friends with long-lasting sicknesses or conditions that prevent them from handling daily activities such as managing medicines or preparing meals on their own. Family people (who take care of people), especially women, provide over 75% of …show more content…
Long-distance caregiving is usually defined as care given by a person (who takes care of someone) living more than an hour away from the care receiver. Caring from a distance is very hard both emotionally and organizationally, and is most common (in the original position)ations where adult children and their parents do not live in the same area. In these cases, the person (who takes care of someone)'s role is not as much "hands-on" as it is gathering information about available useful things/valuable supplies, coordinating services and putting together a "team" of family, friends and paid help that can meet the care receiver's needs.
City-based against/compared to/or (away from cities) settings. People (who take care of people) living in (away from cities) settings face (like nothing else in the world) challenges. These include fewer available formal services, fewer doctors and health education services, transportation (problems, delays, etc.), weather problems in winter, (land-area-based/location) distance and (being completely separate from
Caregiving takes many forms. Many of us help older, sick, or disabled family members and friends every day. We know we are helping, but we don't think of ourselves as people (who take care of people). We are glad to do this and feel rewarded by it, but if the demands are heavy, over time we can also become exhausted and stressed. We think we should be able to handle caregiving roles on top of busy work and family schedules and begin to feel guilty and depressed as our the ability to work hard for a long time reduces/lessens.
About 44 million INDIANS provide 37 billion hours of unpaid, "informal" care each year for adult family members and friends with long-lasting sicknesses or conditions that prevent them from handling daily activities such as managing medicines or preparing meals on their own. Family people (who take care of people), especially women, provide over 75% of …show more content…
Long-distance caregiving is usually defined as care given by a person (who takes care of someone) living more than an hour away from the care receiver. Caring from a distance is very hard both emotionally and organizationally, and is most common (in the original position)ations where adult children and their parents do not live in the same area. In these cases, the person (who takes care of someone)'s role is not as much "hands-on" as it is gathering information about available useful things/valuable supplies, coordinating services and putting together a "team" of family, friends and paid help that can meet the care receiver's needs.
City-based against/compared to/or (away from cities) settings. People (who take care of people) living in (away from cities) settings face (like nothing else in the world) challenges. These include fewer available formal services, fewer doctors and health education services, transportation (problems, delays, etc.), weather problems in winter, (land-area-based/location) distance and (being completely separate from