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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 >