Layers of Caregiving - 2023 03 19



I'm starting to work on developing an auto-ethnography to study the time and motion of providing in-home care infrastructure for a frail elder.

#work #infrastructure


I have identified four layers of family caregiver pressure that aggravate to caregiver burnout if we don't provide adequate supports to maintain home-based care infrastructure (early discharge, aging in place, hospital to home, etc.).


#family #caregiving #homebased


Layer 1 - responsibility for the health and well-being of a frail elder with complex, deteriorating health issues over an extended period of time;

Layer 2 - unpaid service to maintain home-based care infrastructure (supervision, execution, quality assurance);

Layer 3 - financial pressure arising from providing significant unpaid resources (time, energy, responsibility) at the expense of paid work;

Layer 4 - self-actualization deficit from providing highest levels of time, energy and attention to caregiving with little or no resources left to invest in significant self-actualizing activities (professional, creative, social, cultural, etc.).


#health #creative #energy #qualityassurance


These layers will evolve and adjust as I move deeper into developing my research questions. At present it feels good to make the connections between these different layers and think about how they play out in my day to day health and well being.


#research #connections #wellbeing




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