Characteristics of informal caregivers at national and international levels
Características de los cuidadores informales a nivel nacional e internacional
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The increase in chronic non-communicable diseases in response to demographic change and population aging creates the figure of the informal caregiver. This article aims to know the characteristics of caregivers in different countries such as Colombia, Canada, Chile and Cuba. The article is a review, which takes as reference health databases such as Scielo, BVS Virtual Health Library, Elsevier and Medline, based on the experiences of different countries that have studied the subject. The inclusion criteria are: dates from 2002 onwards, the search criteria were the characteristics of informal caregivers or family members belonging to different cultures and research experiences, within the documents reviewed, it can be said that the informal caregiver prevails in all countries that were reviewed in said study, where they are recognized as people who need social support; On the other hand, it is important to highlight that care
In health, in most cases it is given by women, currently there is a growing need for work by them to support the home; Likewise, current care requires specific knowledge, due to advances in technologies.
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