caregiving
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]caregiving (usually uncountable, plural caregivings)
- The provision of care such as assistance with activities of daily living (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, transportation, household administration), usually by someone who is not a health care professional, especially by a family member as unpaid labor.
- Hyponyms: childcare, eldercare
- Coordinate term: health care
- The provision of health care services as a paid occupation.
- Holonym: health care
- 2007 July 1, “Letters”, in New York Times[1]:
- The crux of nontechnical medical caregiving — action with compassion — is based on an old adage: Listen to the patient; he is telling you his diagnosis.
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[edit]the provision of giving care or looking after someone
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