[Thinking about the caregiver].

Rev Infirm

UFR de médecine et des techniques médicales, université de Nantes, campus Centre Loire, 1 rue Gaston-Veil, 44035 Nantes, France. Electronic address:

Published: April 2022

The importance of the family members of those being cared for has been more recognized for about twenty years. However, if there is a literature on the subject, the latter does not exist in the scientific sense. Proposition to conceptualize the notion of the family caregiver based on the nursing sciences.

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