Taipei Times -- Caregiving is understood by economists as a “burden,” by clinical psychologists as a “coping process,” by health-services researchers in terms of health-care costs and by physicians as a matter of clinical competency. But, for many people, caregiving is a foundational component of moral experience. It is a practice of acknowledgement, empathic imagination, witnessing, responsibility, solidarity and the most concrete forms of assistance. It is this moral aspect that makes caregivers, and at times even care-receivers, feel more “present” — and thus more fully human.
