caregiver

• care-giver

From care +‎ giver.

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caregiver (plural caregivers)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) A carer; a person who looks after another person.

   Synonym: carer (UK, Australia)

   Coordinate term: practitioner

   • 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The coronavirus has turned caregivers around the world into homeschoolers.

   • 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 76:

     ‘Caregivers in this role can suffer as much as the patients. It can be very stressful.’

   • 2024 October 6, Jeanne Sahadi, “How companies can ease the strain on employees taking care of elderly parents or ill family members”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Taking care of an elderly parent or seriously ill spouse or family member can be physically and emotionally draining — and expensive for the caregiver in more ways than one.

• The term now usually means someone, such as a family member, who helps with activities of daily living (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, transportation, household administration), often as unpaid labor, as contrasted with a health care practitioner; for clarity, writers often maintain this distinction by reserving this term to the nonprofessional sense.