caregiving, n.Definitions

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

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Caregiving is not linear, but circular, with a crisis resolved only to have it return or be superseded by a different, unexpected crisis.