Caregiver Factors

A caregiver is someone who is responsible for the care of someone. The tasks often include:

• Help someone with a chronic illness or disease.
• Help manage medications, other interventions and support decision making. Possibly talk to doctors and nurses on someone’s behalf.
• Help bathe or dress someone who is frail or disabled.
• Help take care of household chores, meals, or bills for someone who cannot do these things alone.

Caregiver factors are sub-elements of the Patient influences & support factors which are elements of the psychosocial factors in patient recovery.