Caregiver Burden

Abstract

Physicians have a responsibility to recognize caregiver burden. Caregiver assessment and intervention should be tailored to the individual circumstances and contexts in which caregiver burden occurs.

Ethics of care in medical tourism: Informal caregivers' narratives of responsibility, vulnerability and mutuality

“…Caregiver-companions felt a clear responsibility to care, which stemmed from their connections to and relationships with the patients. The informal caregiving literature emphasizes caregiver burdens (e.g., Adelman et al, 2014;Tramonti et al, 2014), but rarely recognizes mutuality in caregiving. Our findings reveal that while caregiver-companions experienced stress due to the complexity of having to provide care across multiple micro-landscapes of care, they also reported some benefits of providing care in the context of medical tourism.…”

“…Medical tourism fits into larger trends brought to light by an ethics of care, such as privatization and marketization, and is enabled by processes such as globalization and trade liberalization. It is one of several global health care mobilities that have gained in scope and scale in the last decade (Bell et al, 2015). Thus, informal caregiving within this practice reflects not only a changing topography of care but also a changing topography of the commodification of health.…”

“…In her 2007 Presidential Address to the Association of American Geographers, Victoria Lawson argued that care has been marginalized by two trends: the extension of market relations into the caring arena, and the reduced public provision of social care. The privatized, market-driven practice of medical tourism thrives on these trends (Bell et al, 2015). Lawson (2007) suggests that care ethics provide a useful lens for examining power relationships, interdependence and mutuality in research on social phenomena.…”

“…To date, reliable quantitative data about medical tourism are limited (Connell, 2013). Researchers suggest that factors such as price, convenience, hope, necessity, and desperation drive patients to consider engaging in medical tourism (Ormond, 2015;Snyder et al, 2014). The majority of movement across borders for private care is regional, diasporic, and often between countries in the Global South (Ormond and Sulianti, 2014;Crush and Chikanda, 2015;Bochaton, 2015).…”

Successful institutional care for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in a repopulated area after the 2011 Fukushima disaster: A case report

“…Caregiver burden refers to the physical and mental stress of caregivers caused by informal caregiving, which is reportedly associated with health issues such as sleep deprivation, depression, and suicide 22. After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, the affected areas faced an increasing need for caregiving because of depopulation and an increase in the aging population 7, 23.…”