Gail SheehyThinkers

Caregiving is often a role accepted as a second adulthood in which we can become better than our younger selves in the troubled drama of our first adulthood.

Caregiving cannot be done alone, but only in the context of a support circle, a circle of care.

Caregiving is not linear, but circular, with a crisis resolved only to have it return or be superseded by a different, unexpected crisis.