Caregiving involves continuous background thinking: tracking histories, anticipating needs, and coordinating care.
Caregiving involves much more than visible tasks. It includes constant background thinking: tracking histories, anticipating needs, coordinating providers, and holding long-term context.
Research on caregiver burden shows that sustained cognitive and emotional load is a major contributor to burnout, often more than physical tasks alone.
Caregivers frequently act as the only continuity point in fragmented healthcare systems, carrying information that systems fail to retain.
Acknowledging this hidden work helps reduce self-blame and validates the real effort involved in caregiving.
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