burden of care
collocation in Englishmeaningsofburdenandcare
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burden
noun[C]
uk/ˈbɜː.dən/us/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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care
noun
uk/keər/us/ker/
the process of protecting someone or something and providing what that person or ...
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(Definition ofburdenandcarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They are the ones who will have to shoulder the majority of theburdenofcareand deal with emotional distress.
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The presence of the parent in the home seems to facilitate joint care-giving by spouses, as does the extraburdenofcarefor another parent.
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These not only occur at a functional level but also in relation to what has been described as 'theburdenofcare' placed on relatives.
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While these questions bear on the issue of institutionalisation and offer general guidelines based on theburdenofcare, they do not provide concrete answers.
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Partnership eased theburdenofcarefor parents and improved communication with agencies.
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Theburdenofcarein schizophrenia is an issue that requires recognition, and attempts to ameliorate it, rather than to provide support, may be misplaced.
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Caution should be exercised, however, to ensure that strategies such as this one do not transfer theburdenofcareto the families of patients.
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A greater emphasis on the importance of sharing special care responsibilities within families is needed to ameliorate social isolation, enhance options, provide emotional support and reduce theburdenofcare.
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The authors note that in the face of these inadequacies theburdenofcareoften falls upon families who provide the invisible but often sacrificial support for their dying relative.
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These machines should improve ease of use for those undertaking hemodialysis at home, reducing the rate of complications and also theburdenofcareon partners/carers.
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Less than a third of those people provided a heavyburdenofcare, and they did not regard their own health as very good.
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I pay tribute to the charities which bear such a heavyburdenofcarefor some of the people of whom we are speaking today.
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The trend in all those cases is for social services to assume more of theburdenofcareand more of the responsibility.
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Some of us have a retrospective guilt for the unpaidburdenofcarefor our invalidity that goes back 50 years.
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Almost always one woman, usually a daughter, sometimes a daughter-in-law or grandmother, has theburdenofcarefor a physically or mentally infirm relative.
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That frees family and friends from the often heavy and, sadly, occasionally resentedburdenofcare—resented on both sides.
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Frequently, theburdenofcarefalls on family members.
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Moreover, since theburdenofcarefalls on family members, it is estimated that the disease affects three members of a patient's family.
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