The adoption of a caregiving role in the context of illness and disability is often taken for
granted. This study explores caregivers' motivations to provide care and how these relate to …

Caring for a loved one was once considered a family matter-invisible work nested within the
private sphere of home. Current advances in medical technology, altered illness patterns …

Objectives: The current research explores how family caregivers (1) make sense of
caregiving and (2) cope with their circumstance. Method: We analysed semistructured …

Informal or family caregivers contribute significantly to individual care, and to the Canadian
healthcare system, yet receive limited support from governments, institutions, and healthcare …

Using grounded theory, the authors explore informal caregiving and develop the beginnings
of a substantive caregiving theory explaining some of the decision making involved in pro …

Many and varied implications of caregiving have been reported in the literature. Caregiving
has been associated with both negative and positive impacts and researchers have …

Tacit definitions of informal caregiving Aims of the study: This study describes three tacit
definitions of informal caregiving and explores the extent to which differences in these tacit …

Caregiving by family members, particularly women, is a societal expectation that is
intensifying in the context of an aging population and health care restructuring. Our program …

Disagreements and misunderstandings between informal caregivers and care-receivers
have been widely reported, but the causes are unclear. The present article compares the …

Researchers across disciplines have identified meaning as an important influence on family
caregivers' responses to caregiving. This paper describes a qualitative inquiry into the …