Family Caregiver Investigation

  Family caregiving responsibility is work that covers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In our household this responsibility has been assigned and managed on an ad hoc, normative, as needed, basis. Our family is following normative patterns for the assumption of family caregiving responsibilities - typically female, which also happens to redound to lead homemaker. We call it "Family Caregiving" because the work of caregiving is being carried out within a family setting as opposed to an institutional (ie. professional health provider) setting. A private family home is providing essential healthcare infrastructure. This private family home healthcare infrastructure is being executed, managed and administered by a private family member, often the female lead of the household. The work of caregiving - the day to day tasks that make up successful fulfillment of family caregiving responsibility, are often carried out by this same female lead, it may also be delegated to professional ...