caregiver

Noun

Meaning

a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult

a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

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Examples

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life. Philippa Perry

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver. Mindy Sterling

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. Mayim Bialik

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members. Wendy E. Long

The biological goal of the existence of every organism becomes understandable when we realize that it acts as a protector of genes worn in it, which must ensure that they move into the child's body before the caregiver himself becomes old and can not function properly. Jerzy Vetulani

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen! Keri Russell

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