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How about "carer"? - I think that's the term more commonly used in UK. Margaret. At 06:37 AM 01/11/96 -0500, you wrote: >Like Christine (below), I dislike the word "caregiver," but for a >different reason: it makes a relationship seem very one-sided, all giving >by one person and all taking by the other. This may be true for patients >in the last stages of PD (or any other disease), but surely in most >relationships both parties try to care for the other, and often the >non-PD partner has medical problems too, if only the occasional bout of >flu. Even if one reaches the stage of physical immobility, there are >ways of showing care to one's friends and helpers, surely? > >On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Christina and Victor Honigber wrote: > >> As I stated, I am on a roll. First I commented on," How is he doing now?" >> I would like to say how I feel about the word caregiver. I brought this >> subject up a few years ago when I was a committee member with the Parkinsons >> society here. My feeling were then, and still are, I hate the word. I >> consider myself friend, partener, sole mate, love and wife. The word >> caregiver for me, and I can only speak for myself, implies I am just the >> help. What would be an appropiate word to use in place of this word? I >> often wonder. >> > >> >Christina >> > >