Caregiving The Odyssey of Becoming More Human

Caregiving is one of those relationships and practices of self-cultivation that make us, even as we experience our limits and failures, more human.....
By Bob DeMarco

The following is an excerpt from a well written, thought provoking article by Arthur Kleinman that appears in Harvard Magazine.

But, to use the close experiential language of actually doing it, caregiving is also a defining moral practice. It is a practice of empathic imagination, responsibility, witnessing, and solidarity with those in great need. It is a moral practice that makes caregivers, and at times even the care-receivers, more present and thereby fully human.