Definition of "caregiving" [caregiving]

• The provision of healthcare services (noun)

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• "I assume this to mean that caregiving is not always an experience of degradation and that dependency, even in its extremes, can offer opportunities for great acts of tenderness."
• "OUR VIEW of the future of at-home caregiving is that friends of boomers will fill in many of the gaps (as will paid, non-medical caregiving services and other developing models)."
• "According to an AARP study released Monday, nearly a quarter of unpaid caregivers say that caregiving is a financial hardship."