caregiver

See also: care-giver

English

Alternative forms

• care-giver

Etymology

From care +‎ giver.

Noun

caregiver (plural caregivers)

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

   Synonym: carer (UK, Australia)

   Coordinate term: practitioner

   • 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.’

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

• caregive
• caregiver register
• noncaregiver

 

Related terms

• caregiving

 

Translations

carer — see carer